Dear Jon & Layne, I’m reading through some of your posts this morning. This one touched me, deeply. When I was younger I thought following Christ, exhibiting him to others, meant I’d never make a mistake, but, woefully, I was so wrong. Somehow it’s easy to believe that to show Christ to others means that we are somehow above our humanity, but, the reality is we are works in progress and HE knows that. And STILL he chose to put this desire in YOUR hearts to be in Mozambique ministering in this specific area, not because you were sent into the mission field by a board but because you’re heeding what he has placed inside of you. Because you are aware of your human heart failings it’s easy to think you are not fulfilling the desires of HIS heart, but, the ones you care for, the many that have become close in your heart, they see past this, they see Christ’s love for them even if they cannot verbalize what they are experiencing. The woman who has chosen to shut you out, she knows, it seems to me she’s afraid to love, maybe because she’s lost the ones she has loved, we surely don’t know, but, God does, he knows her heart, the pain and bitterness that fills it, and he placed her with you all! He is amazing, he knows, he loves through it all. This may sound bizarre, but, I read this post with some gladness. Gladness that he has brought you to this place of brokenness – an egg is tasty, but, if it’s never broken you cannot taste how good it is. Sometimes we fry it, scramble it, or, beat it. In the end we can finally eat it! Ah, Jon & Layne, it’s been in your brokenness, not in a life lived “perfectly”, that Christ has come forth to these dear ones. Your compassion for their suffering, your loving them even in small ways speaks volumes to them. May Christ continue to grow in you both as you walk this journey that he has set you on, and as you see your lack may you know, with assuredness, that he is there, in your lack. May God’s grace, wisdom, and love be evident to you both and to your precious girls today and always. Now, I need to go crack some eggs and feed a couple of grandboys! lol

Yet He chooses. Again and Again.