6-7 de Septiembre de 2007 (Sick!)

To my faithful blog readers:

You may have noticed that I failed to post a blog on Thursday. Well, I had one of my famous headache spells. :( Wednesday morning I woke up at about 3:30 in the morning only to realize that I was going to be sick. I ran into the bathroom, wished my mommy were there, and then . . . got sick. Afterwards, I felt much better and went back to sleep.

But, on Thursday morning I woke up and felt even worse! I woke up nauseous and with a terrible headache. School was torture because I felt so bad, and we came straight home. I couldn’t eat anything, so I just took a nap. When I woke up I was feeling pretty bad and had a mini breakdown. :( I just felt so terrible and didn’t know what to do. I feel like Satan was attacking me in one of my soft spots, and I was really letting it get me down. At 3:15 we had our first session leading the Conversation Club and ICPNA in La Molina. The class went pretty well; Liz led the first portion of conversation and I mustered up enough strength to do the activity. We learned a lot about our students from their responses to our questions and invited a few more people to our Saturday Bible study. After it was over, we headed back to Surco and stopped to get some Peruvian Saltines. They taste a bit sweet compared to the crackers I’m used to having back home, but at least I was able to eat something. I took another nap and prayed for the best.

We both ended up going to bed pretty early, by 10:00, so that we could get some rest for our bodies.

Friday, September 7, I woke up feeling better. We went to school and then headed straight back to Surco. When we got off the bus, I decided I was ready for some food, since all I ate the day before was 4 crackers and some Sprite, and we stopped in at KFC! I got a chicken wrap, some french fries, a Pepsi and some cole slaw for s/.10.90! I was able to eat the fries and Pepsi and half of my wrap and felt a bit better. When we got home, Jeff and Judy came over to bring a shelf that they had bought for our bathroom. Our toilet got fixed the day before and with the new shelf, our bathroom was returning back to normal! After they left, we took a good, long nap from 12:30 to 4:00!

I’ve been reading this book that Gary, the BSM director at UTA gave me before I left Arlington. It’s called The Fuel and the Flame by Steve Shadrach. This book is excellent for college students and talks about planning your life so that you will have an eternal impact. The section I most recently read talks about how we should as God to do great things in our lives. It challenges us to have a vision for our lives that centers around the type of impact we would like to have for Christ. The question was posed, How big is your God? Of course we would all answer, “Huge! Great! Bigger than anything!, etc.” But the books says, “I can tell how big you the He is by what you’re asking Him to do for you!” What a challenge that statement is. It says that we shouldn’t insult God by asking Him for molehills, but we should COMPLIMENT His incredible nature by asking Him to move mountains! If you want to make an impact, then you must ask God to do this in your life. Wow. Now my first thought upon reading this was that it seemed selfish. Ask God to do immense things in my life? Yes! Ask that He use me as a witness and testimony to the great things HE is able to do, not that I am able to do. Ask that He use me to impact the glory of His kingdom for the purpose of increasing the number of those who will spend all of eternity in Heaven! That becomes the burden that I should’ve been feeling all along. How is God going to use ME for His glory? What an incredible responsibility we Christians have!

“If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest; and if one of you wants to be first, you must be the slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served; he came to serve and to give his life to redeem many people.” Mark 10:43b-45

“Al contrario, el que quiera ser grande entre ustedes, deberá servir a los demás, y el que entre ustedes quiera ser el primero, deberá ser el esclavo de los demás. Porque ni aun el Hijo del hombre vino para que le sirvan, sino para servir y dar su vida en rescate por una multitud.” Marcos 10:43b-45

“Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” 2 Timothy 3:12

Katrina

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