I am working on a Trade....

I am trading the American Dream for the KINGDOM OF GOD.

I read this not that long ago and it has deeply affected me and put into words so many things that have been on my heart.

What is this going to look like in my daily life and my family’s life? It will certainly be a process, and it won’t happen overnight, but changes are a coming folks.

My new motto that my husband is hearing a lot of is I want to simplify our lives. I don’t want the American Dream; I absolutely don’t want it any more! We are so blessed, we have TOO much, and so many have notta!

God has blessed us abundantly and what I am going to do with it? A Big question that I don’t clearly have the answer for right now, but in God’s timing it will be revealed.

In God’s words we are to care for the orphaned, the widowed, the lonely…the least of these. ALL OF US ARE. How are you doing that, how am I doing that? Please do not close your eyes to it anymore, do not be consumed in your own selfishness anymore.

There are children who live there whole lives, every single day, in a crib in a room where the only touch is an occasional feeding and changing when necessary. Children that could thrive despite their special needs if given a loving home and the medical attention they need, but they are sentenced to life in a crib until they reach the age of 5 and are then sent to a mental asylum. This is pretty much a death sentence. I have witnessed children being brought into loving homes out of this room that are THRIVING and SMILING once again.

There are remote villages in Ethiopia where evil is heavily present. Where mothers could use a break and never get it. Where children do not even have the luxury of a diaper, and wear their own waste on a constant basis. Survival consumes every minute of every day and they desperately need to hear about the love of Jesus.

There are families, small children, living among garbage in Guatemala trying to survive and earn some money of anything they can find. Literally they live among the huge garbage piles. There are children caught up on the government system who have been waiting years to come home to their forever families, year’s people.

There are women, young ladies, sold into sex slavery in India trying to pay off their debt so they can be freed from this dark, dark world. My niece is witnessing these places first hand and her heart is broken for them, she has prayed with many of them, offering them a light in their darkness that can only come from knowing the love of Jesus.

So many stories, so much heart break, and yet I sit here in the land of PLENTY, and what am I doing?

The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by Him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long.

Deuteronomy 33:12

More to come as I figure this out….