Busy and Working Hard
God's colourful contrastAnother week over and another dollar. Well, we do have a bit more than that but like every other country PNG has inflation too, it's like a dog chasing its tail. Talking of tails, I have been chasing mine lately with 5 separate publications expected out before mid last week and 3 more lots by the end of the next. Meanwhile as I am busily pushing toward this goal two more printing requests come in, one via email and the other delivered on a CD. Are we busy? A little!!
What is God teaching in all of this? Well for one thing long suffering. :) Or is that patience? The promised computer memory card still has not arrived, it is only 6 weeks late. How does it work? Slowly! It is a good thing that it is not machines and projects that matter but God's will and our relationships to people that do. We are learning to not criticise but to listen more, relying on God to give the grace to be kind and encouraging to others. It is not the things of this world that are important nor do they count for eternity but they will fade away to count as nothing. Jesus Christ said to store only treasures that will count for eternity and those are the things that He loves the most, People. I trust you will be there too. See you next time!
posted by The Hunt Family @ 1:11 pm
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4 Comments:
We are learning to not criticise but to listen more, relying on God to give the grace to be kind and encouraging to others...
Greetings from Ecuador! What a good word and is very much the kind of thing God is working on with me as well. Hope you get your computer part, but you right to state that it is "not machines and projects that matter but God's will and our relationships to people that do." I don't know when I will ever learn that lesson!
Keep blogging, you have a lot of good to share with the rest of us out there scattered around the world.
My own blog is http://guymuse.blogspot.com
Hey there,
My name's Deb. I'm from Perth, and know Amanda from SIM prayer meetings. I followed a link here from her blog.
I like what you said about how "it is not machines and projects that matter but God's will and our relationships to people that do." God has been teaching me that lately too.
I did two Scripture Union beach missions last summer in WA, and by the end of the second one my friend and I really felt the Holy Spirit had been convicting us of the need to genuinely LOVE PEOPLE, and kept reminding ourselves of that truth with the mantra: "People, not projects"!
So important. Yet so challenging, because it requires us to be real, and vulnerable, and to give so much of ourselves. Thankfully, everything we have to give comes from our gracious and generous Father!
Anyway, I look forward to hearing more about the work God is doing in PNG.
(I learnt the other day that PNG is the most linguistically diverse country in the world! That's according to SIL's Enthnologue, anyway. You learn something new everyday...)
God bless :)
Deb
I'm a missionary in Niger and "know" Amanda from her blog. We were on home assignment the year they were in Niger and completely missed them. Anyway, I really like your coffee house idea and think the "city" missionaries could probably do more to encourage the "bush" missionaries along those lines. Maybe us "bush" missionaries should be doing more to encourage each other!
Hi,Greetings from Nyabing W.A
It is great to hear what you are doing in more detail so we can pray for you.Hope you get that cartridge.We to have the relationships to continuly ask God to be with us,as we spread Gods love in this small town. Cameron Mcgill
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