He Spoke

A couple of months ago, we had a guest speaker at church. He is the founder of an organization called Louder Than Words. He began with a video of pictures from mission trips to Honduras. As the video played, I began feeling the Lord tug at my heart. I felt He was whispering to me, "You know, you could go." I mentioned it to my husband when we got in the car and then after that I just sort of kept it in the back of my mind. Let me just say that I am not one of these people who has always wanted to go on a mission trip. I have always enjoyed hearing of other people's trips and have thought how neat it must have been, but probably not something I would ever do. I sent an email to our pastor asking him when the trip would be and he replied that it would be in April. Well, I had just resolved myself to the fact that maybe this was the Lord's way of shutting the door. A trip during the school year was just not an optimal situation. Getting children to and from school with all the necessary homework being done is not an easy baton to pass. A month later, the pastor mentioned the mission trip in his closing remarks. He said that the trip was going to be over spring break. I thought I was going to jump out of my skin. "Lord," I said, " is this your way of opening that door for me?" I just felt even more confident that the Lord was calling me to go to Honduras. A couple of weeks later, my husband and I attended the informational meeting for anyone who might be interested. There was not one thing I heard in that meeting that put doubt in my mind. So, here's the best part. That night at church, I was sitting in front of the pastor's wife and we began talking about the trip. We were discussing the needs of the orphanage and how we were going to be doing a little construction. She casually mentioned that they were going to be moving the room for the special needs children for easier access and less danger in case of a fire. Special needs children. "Lord, that is why you have called me to Honduras". I get tears in my eyes just thinking about it. Here I thought he was sending me so that I could lovingly hold all those babies who don't know what it's like to have a real family. Now I realize He sending me so that I can possibly enrich the lives of children who may never leave the orphanage. Children who will most likely never receive the much needed services that I take for granted on a daily basis. I have never in my life felt so strongly that this is truly the Lord calling me to do this. What a blessing. I hope that you will pray for me as I prepare for the trip. I pray that the Lord will open doors for resources for these special children and that I will indeed be able to bless them as I know that they will bless me.