Last week in New Orleans we stayed at this house in the “inner city” near the projects.
I found myself outside one day just sitting and talking to people as they passed by.
I talked to these great older women one day.
Amanda, my friend came down and we all had a great conversation.
Then they left and this little boy, Damian came by.
He sat down.
Damian said he wasn’t feeling good.
I deduced that his tummy was hungry.
Amanda ran and got him a snack from inside.
And we talked to Damian for awhile.
Then I asked him if he wanted a ride home because the van had just pulled up with the college group.
So the college group leader and I drove Damian home.
And while we were riding in the car.
I realized that Damian’s stomach never hungered.
He was so hungry to be loved.
We finally got to his house, after driving through this dilapidated, yet beautiful neighborhood, and nobody was home.
My heart broke as he looked back at us from his doorstep.
He came running out and asked if we could drive him to his grandma’s.
By the time we got to his grandma’s his stomach problems were over.
All around us people are so in need of love.
The Same Sun
It is amazing to me that we always have the presence of Jesus with us.
Today I was thinking that when I look up at the sun or the moon, it is the same sun or moon that Jesus saw when he was on this earth.
Is that not amazing!
Healing
Amy Carmichael, again, taught me so much yesterday.
I really thought the Lord was going to heal me in New Orleans.
Twice I was anointed with oil and prayed over many times for healing.
Amy said, “I have known lovers of our Lord who in their spiritual youth were sure beyond a doubt that healing would always follow the prayer of faith and the anointing of oil in the name of the Lord.
But those same dear lovers, in their beautiful maturity, passed through illness, unrelieved by any healing.
And when I looked in wonder remembering all that they had held and taught in other yeas.
I found them utterly at rest.
The secret of their Lord was with them.
He had said to them, their own beloved Lord had said it.
“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”.
Do their hearts were not troubled or afraid and their song was always of the loving-kindness of the Lord.
“As for God, His way is perfect,” they said, “We need no explanation.”
