Today, I truly felt the Father's heart being my only substance. I have always had problems showing emotions or truly feeling anything. It comes from a long time of suppressing and thinking that emotions and God are not what should fuel my tie to my Creator. But, that's the thing, God has created emotions for His glory. Be praying that I am continuously vulnerable to the Holy Spirit and not just open to what He does.
But, back to my story:
There is a lot of children at this dump that we do ministry at, and a special muchacho named "Igner" or "Egner" (his nickname is "Nerrrrrr", you have to know how to roll your 'r' to say it) has become a dear friend of mine. He is 8 years old and has a smile that melts your heart.
We drove a bus there and right when I step off the bus, he runs over to me with a huge grin on his face and hugs me, he then quickly tells me that he is very hungry. Well, we brought him and a hundred others food and water, but believe me it only gets better (heck that's the last thing that matters).
We had frisbees to throw, futbol to play, and actually had a Fiesta with our friends at this dump. We shined Christ's resilient light into a dark and impoverished place, but these people have 10 times the joy of any middle class American.
Money has absolutely nothing on impoverished joy. Paul said it well somewhere in Scripture "I have nothing, yet all things" and these kids have so much internal joy that it makes my heart yearn for that child-likeness with Christ. Money also has nothing on a hundred filled tummies and a whole lotta happy faces.
These people are not just poor folks that live in a dump. They are our brothers, sisters, and future children of God.
But, most importantly they are merely our friends.
With Love,
Graham Snuggs
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