Only the poor are rich...

This week has been really hard work! We have nearly finished essential work on Tariro House. I am moving in on Monday.

Someone has donated a cooker and we hope to find a fridge this weekend... somewhere, just lurking about!

I am learning what it really means to wake up every day and not know what will happen. So many people are giving so much to the Tariro Youth Project here, so many sacrifices, of time, effort, money and even material 'things.' We don't know where the project will be in a year's time, but it is growing bigger and bigger and greater and greater! At the moment we don't have enough funding to cater for all our needs, but I really do believe, for the first time in this whole project, that we will find funding. That gifts, furniture, money, staff and orphans will come! If we had everything, and even more than we needed, we wouldn't trust God.

St Paul writes about learning to live with everything, or nothing; a full stomach or an empty one; in pain or in joy... Jesus tells the women in Mark 5 just to have faith, simply to believe. Jesus calls ME to do the same, this very simple thing. Only now do I udnerstand what He means! Only now do I see that to be 'rich', you have to be 'poor'. I am being blessed beyond words, I am rich because God has chosen me to do this for Him.

I keep thinking, as the project gets bigger, that I cannot manage this, that there is not enough people to allocate jobs too, that I can't do this or that... actually, this is not about ME at all! In all of this, in learning to listen to God, I have to put the 'I' aside. I am not doing this project for myself or for my own name, but for God's, because I truly believe that God has a heart and passion for these children - for HIS children!

Only the poor are truly rich... to be rich means to give up everything... to be poor means to have everything - in Christ.

Love!!