We truly have been loved.
Some of you may be asking, "What do you mean?" Well, what it looks like is a group of people (22 very diverse people) flying several hundred miles to come and visit our family. It looks like people hugging us and laughing with us, walking alongside us on the mountains where we live. It looks like a group of people who worked themselves to literal exhaustion completing 3 homes with stoves, and conducting 4 medical clinics for thankful Mayans. It looks like people (some whom we barely knew) holding our children, and playing with them as if they were their own children. It looks like people praying with us, and for us, and for our ministry here. It looks like people bringing gifts to surprise my lovely wife with a baby shower. And these same people, two days later held a birthday party for my twins so they could turn five surrounded by people they loved and trusted.
This is what being loved looks like.
They sat with us, ate with us, worked with us, even cried with us. They held our hands, walked with us up many steps, and up many mountains. They laughed and made us laugh as well. They helped confirm in us that what we do and who we are becoming is worthwhile. And they brought monetary gifts from the States...from people who love us and pray for us there but who couldn't come. They were only a representation of a larger group who love us as well.
And they were also a representation of what God was trying to tell us...that HE loves us.
This is what being loved looks like. I can't even share what being loved like this feels like. There are no words. We still are in recovery and denial that the moment is gone.
Did it really happen? Was it really that magical? Were they really holding my children? Did my wife really experience the support of so many people? Did they really confirm my gifting?
It was so amazing it almost feels like a beautiful dream... the kind that when you awake, you try to close your eyes and go back to the same moment in the dream.
But. Can't.
I can only hope they feel the same way. I can only hope that they felt our hearts as well.
But I do know that we have been forever changed...because we have been truly loved.
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3 comments:
I can definitely feel you. As I was sitting here at work this morning I just felt like I came back from a dream... I almost feel like I don't even belong here at work. My heart is changed, for sure. Love you all.
What an awesome reassurance for you all. I'm so excited you were able to have friends join you at work :-)
We totally understand those feelings. Every time a team comes, they love on us, but even better- they love on our kids. Nothing makes my heart leap for joy more (and brings tears streaming down my face) then when people really love on my kids, encourage them, hug them...and when it is time for the team to leave, my kids don't want them to leave any more than they want to leave...You are right- that is how we know we are loved by Him, through the love of others. It is awesome and what a privlege to be a part of.
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