I woke up. Something wasn’t right! I didn’t feel normal. Things were on me; things were biting me! I quickly turned on my phone flashlight… ants! They had apparently decided that my bed was a highway in the middle of the night. Needless to say, my sleep that night was not good at all, and I woke up feeling extremely tired. This is my weakest point. I asked God for special strength for the day and somehow got up.
That day Abi, Mrs. Kasey, Mr. Robbie, and Hannah ended up all being gone for most of the day. I was glad that they were able to go together!
I hadn’t really slept the night before, but for some reason, I wasn’t really feeling tired; I called it just morning energy and continued on with my morning routine. I started my first shift with the kids at 9:30, and it was really fun! Then lunch came, and I started to ask myself questions. Why am I not feeling last night by now? I should be tired, right? I continued on. The kids were being really good, and I was honestly having fun, so I was kind of disappointed when Robbie showed up to take over at 3.
As I walked home, I was confused; I had just done a double shift, and yet I did not feel super tired. In all honesty, I hadn’t thought much about my prayer because I hadn’t been able to concentrate during it, but God still heard, and He still answered!
There is no way that I would have been able to be happy and patient with the kids in my own human power so I would call this a miracle. I know that this is not the first miracle that has happened to me. I know that God has helped me countless other times to do things that I could not do on my own. The more that I learn about Him and come closer to Him, the more I realize that He is a very personal God. He loves to help us in our times of need, and He is still the miracle-working God that we see in the Bible.
However, I also know that I do not recognize and give Him praise for all the times that He is working in me. Could it be that I have gotten so used to the miracles and answered prayers that I do not notice them anymore? Or could it be that I just have gotten so used to the world’s perspective of explaining away the things of God that I have started to do that too? Something that I have been trying to work on lately is the practice of seeing the miracle. God still is working in miraculous ways!
Reading missionary books from a small age, I always expected the mission field to be something super exciting, with miracles at every turn. Big miracles. I am finding that the mission field is not always like it is in the books. Here we are just living life and loving kids, but our God is no smaller, and He is definitely no quieter.
I am finding that His power is still displayed even in the “small” miracles; the only difference is that you have to look a little harder to see the small miracles. Do you want to join me as I practice seeing the miracle? He does not only work in the overseas mission fields, but He is also at work everywhere you go, and He is present at every turn. We just need the eyes to see.
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