Maybe I'm here to love

Maybe I’m here to love.
That is what I have learned this week. I wasn’t needed to run a VBS or teach. This week I just loved on the kids and played recreation games with them. I listened to all of their stories that they wanted to tell. It was this week that I truly grasped the reason why I’m in California. I knew I was supposed to serve God and in that I would end up serving others, but I never thought that I was sent to love. I thought that was just a given. Of course I was going to be sharing Go’s love with others, but I didn’t know that would be my main job f the summer. God opened up my heart and showed me how to love others like Jesus loves them. Tomorrow I am getting on a plane and flying to Georgia, and for 5 days that will be my mission field. On Saturday I will drive to Auburn and for the rest of the year my mission field is going to be Auburn University. I have to take what I have learned this summer with me. This summer I learned that sometimes a smile is enough. I learned that even if people don’t understand what you’re saying, they understand a smile and it puts them at ease. I’ve learned that all service starts with being humble and not too good to do something as gross as take out the trash. I’ve learned that sometimes, missions is just loving people. It’s not always going to be going door to door sharing the gospel sometimes it starts with friendship and love. Christ paid too high of a price for me to pick and choose who is capable of believing his mighty truth. Please continue to pray for me as I move to my new mission field and my partners as they settle in to their new mission fields. Home is a mission field just as Sacramento is a mission field. Soon I will be on a mission at Auburn University...WAR EAGLE!
God Bless!
Mags