Love

I am humbled daily being around a love that constantly is pointing me back to my King. These people understand the love of the Father and some don’t even know Him yet. And to me that is so heart wrenching that it makes me squirm at the thought. Here I am a follower of this Christ, and I’m surrounded by people who understand the Kingdom better than I’ve learned in all my church saturated years.

I look at a little girl, and because of her circumstance has no right as a Thai citizen, forced into poverty, and desperate to even survive. Who’s mom wants to sell her to an older man just simply for extra money that month. And after escaping that fate, is yet faced with another tragedy again and again that will end with tears and brokenness. Everywhere this girl turns she is faced with people who will not fight for her, but people that continue to use her. 

And yet despite it all, her heart continues to love. She would give anything for the family that attempted to sell her. She will love them till they leave this earth. And it’s not just a love that says, “I love you.” But it’s a love that speaks. A love that looks like something. And to me, it’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen in my short little life. It’s the kind of love that when you see it, it makes you fall down in the dirt and just cry that hopefully one day, with God’s grace, that I could show love like that.

You see the problem is that I’ve come from a culture that doesn’t necessarily value an action of complete and udder love. To where if someone tried to sell you for money, where you would be raped daily, impregnated, forced to mother a child, while you were still a child, broken among many things...... Would you still love them and come back for the people that sold you into that? Honestly I think, no I wouldn’t. I would never go back to them. I would never show them love ever again. Some of us would go so far as to try to repay the ugly they gave to us.

And people……being here and seeing……I can say these precious little girls look more like the Father than I ever will.  I pray that wherever this finds you that you can feel the love these girls show and pour out. It is life changing. It is tear jerking. It is soul captivating. And this is what my King said to look like. Through the brokenness….through the sometimes disgusting parts of life, to make your love look like something. Love the ones that you can’t. Love the ones that hurt you. Lets set down what we’ve always been told is honorable and right. And begin to look like this King we serve.