Colossians 2:13-15 "When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
I don't know about you, but when I read that passage in my mind, I'm really shouting it and when I was done typing it, I wanted to add a billion exclamation points!!! Amen to that verse! Thank you so much, Lord, for nailing all of our junk and religious ramblings to the cross. I have been so thankful in the recent days that I don't have to go on a mission to trip to have salvation. I don't have to do xyz123 in order to gain it. There is nothing I can do to deserve it. My righteousness is as FILTHY rags before God, but when I'm covered by the blood of Jesus, by the Cross, I am free. I am clean. And I am seen by God as pure. Wow. And now that I have this freedom, I want everyone else to have it to! I want to love people and share God's love with people. Even if they are halfway around the world. I'm just thankful that because of this, I am not 'in better with God' haha. That statement made me laugh too! I've just been camping out in Colossians and Luke lately. It's been good. God is good.
We've been training for the past two days. Getting curriculum and crafts ready for the kids that will be coming to our Holiday club! It's been fun and I finally found out where I will be working! I am in a township called Capricorn and the team I am working with is amazing. I can't wait to meet the children and begin building relationships. Just found out that a community nearby the one I am working with does not have running water. They have pumps. Again, this is shocking simply because a 1st world community is so close by. I just do not understand. And I hope I never become numb to that kind of information. How do the 1st world and the 3rd world live so close together?....
Netball. Much like basketball you shoot to score a goal. Unlike basketball, you cannot dribble and only 2 of the seven players are allowed to shoot the ball. I learned this game yesterday. I have to coach it next week! HAHA! This should be interesting. According to some of the local male volunteers, Netball is for girls (basically they were saying it's a sissy sport). Well, I have a jammed finger to prove it is NOT! It was quite fun and I hope to get good at it while here. Oh, one other thing. The baskets have no backboard. Just a rim on a pole. Now someone try to tell me that's not intense. I'm a backboard kind of basketball player so nothin' but rim is going to be interesting!
I feel like there are a billion other things I could talk about, but they will have to wait because I am quite sleepy.
Praying for you,
AC
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