Hello everybody!
Ok, today I just want to say a big "THANKS!!!" to the people that were in Kinmen last year. The way they handled the life here- both personal and public- has made the biggest impact on the way things are now. From the investments and choices they made to the the love they showed and the work done through prayer, a road was paved. Although it's not an easy one, it's a road with sure footing and Something at the end that makes even the blind curves and grueling hills scream, "It's worth every footstep."
I thought about this as I listened to a fourth grade class sing. It was at a particularly hard school- one that is tougher for me to prepare for. The girl that taught there last year as shared some advice for working there, and suggested singing. She said to get them to teach me their version of "Rain, rain go away." I'd never heard the class be so loud (they're usually very quiet). They sang their hearts out. Why? No doubt they had been taught to sing like that- with all of their heart.
It just made me think. Such an impact was made. In big things, little things..it's still being made. There's still evidence of it, even months after they left. Now it's me in that spot. WoW.
Choices..people watching...kids learning from me...teachers trusting me...principles offering me coffee... friendships... relationships... people investments...time with God...His purpose for each day..So much to think about!
So what am I going to do about it?
SOMETHING.
"Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.." Heb.12:1-2
~Ginger Jernigan
Kinmen, Taiwan
