Jess here…. Bringing you some thoughts from the first few months and looking to the future of the start of the school year. 

As deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfall, all your waves and breakers wash over me.

Psalm 42:7

This Psalm has always spoken to me, lit something on fire in my soul, a yearning I could never really explain. Deeper has always been the cry of the soul, and my mind has always asked, but how? When I was in middle school, I asked my youth pastor a question about a song he had written about being stuck in the middle… I asked, “How do you get unstuck?” How do you truly move forward? I wanted a clear path, a guide to the deep, but that’s not really how God works. He is more of a step-by-step, moment-by-moment, demanding my attention and my trust. He called and asked me to jump into the deep where I cannot see the bottom, there is no clear plan, to trust that he will not let me sink, but he will bring me to the surface again and again. 

Wave after wave, I trust in him to bring me to the surface again to give me each breath that I need. Not my strength. Not my strength, but his and only his. As we start this new school year in a new place, a new life, completely, he demands that we never take our eyes off him. He will lead. He will guide step by step. The picture he is painting is not clear yet, but the brush strokes are breathtaking when you stop to look at them. 

God is doing something in each of these children’s lives and hearts. With each day in school, he is calling them. I simply pray to be the vessel, to let God work through my hands and my heart and my feet each day in the lives of these little ones he has entrusted to me. The deep is calling here in Thailand at this school and I have answered come flood me I trust that you will bring me to the surface and fill my soul with the air that I need.