We'll meet at Jesus' feet

"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Luke 12:34

I haven't blogged on my trip to Uganda 1. because it's hard to put into words my emotions 2. I broke my back and was busy with other things but today God reminded me of something I learned there.

I have always had trouble with the comment "Lord willing". I don't know why but it's been my thing when people say "Lord willing I will see you tomorrow" I want to say no I will see you tomorrow. I guess it was a control or trust thing even though I had always trusted the Lord with my fate and have totally surrendered my life to Him.

What's crazy is that just like Jesus used the orphans in Haiti to take my head knowledge of Jesus into a full blown heart knowledge of Jesus and relationship with Him. He also used the orphans in Uganda to do the same.

A quick overview: the orphans in Uganda knew the Bible backwards and forwards. They spoke English which was nice but literally on the first night we had a devotional with the girls they went around and spoke Psalm 52 from memorization because that was their Psalm for the week!! An interesting point here is I learned how foolish I am with spending my time in the word. They yearned for it like a deer pants for the water so their soul panted for God and His spoken word.

But on our last day as we said our good-byes I was telling them I would be back next year and I meant it. I had been changed yet again. When you go to the other side of the earth you not only see that God is the same yesterday, today and forever, but He is the same in America, Haiti and Uganda. We all love the same the God and He is in every place at one time! So I said to one of the girls, "I will see you next year." She said back, "Lord willing I will see you next year too Stephanie. " AH there it was! So I said, "Yep Esther, Lord willing." And then she said something I will never forget for as long as I live. She said with laughter and a big smile on her face, "But don't worry, Stephanie, if I don't see you again, we will meet at Jesus' feet." As my heart and head tried to grasp what she had just said (again a 10 year old) I realized where her heart was and it was not in her circumstances or her earthly treasure. She already knew where her treasure was. It was in Heaven. I cried and said as I walked away, "I'll see you at His feet, Lord willing."

Japan's 23rd Psalm

From a Japanese bible the 23rd Psalm translates as such, it says it all:



The Lord is my Pace-setter, I shall not rush;

He provides me with images of stillness, which restore my serenity,

He makes me stop and rest for quiet intervals,

He leads me in ways of efficiency through calmness of mind,

And His guidance is peace.



Even though I have a great many things to do each day,

I will not fret, for His presence is here,

He prepares refreshment and renewal in the midst of my activity,

His timelessness, His all-importance, will keep me in balance,

By anointing my mind with His oils of tranquility.

My cup of joyous energy overflows,

Surely harmony and effectiveness shall be the fruit of my hours,

I shall walk in the pace of my Lord and dwell in His house for ever.

The Best Advice I've Ever Received

The most important advice I’ve ever received came from a man who lived in the early 1900's but his truth rings clear today just as it always has and always will.


“Your real new self – which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours only because it is HIS– will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for HIM! Does that sound strange? The same principle holds for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself and you will find yourself. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fiber of your being and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing! Nothing that you have will ever be really be yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find HIM, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

– C.S. Lewis

The dichotomy of losing your life to find it never made sense to me until recently when I did all these things: died to my ambitions for my life, looked for God in the little details of my life and joyfully accepted the opportunities He put into my life that this quote began to make sense. I am a true testament to this truth in that when I died to myself Christ who lives in me took over and blessed me beyond belief. These blessings were in the natural whether it be a new home or a new car or someone anonymously giving me $2000 for a trip to Haiti or a $3000 infrared sauna. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN? It’s because once you die to yourself nothing is yours. So if you give something away it comes back to you. Maybe not from the same person but it comes back! You cannot be in this loop of blessings until you have the mind set that nothing is your own. None of these natural blessings are as important as those that came into my very being, the ones that inhabited my soul. The spiritual blessings were those of which are unexplainable,

A joy that surpasses understanding
A peace that is constant
A love beyond measure...

What’s holding you back from giving all of yourself away?

Until you do I venture to say you are not truly living...

God promised an abundant life but it may not be how you expected to find it, huh ?

Yeah, well, me either...