Good morning! Well, its Thursday here and I just can't believe that we are already leaving tomorrow. There have been some really long and hard days but God is so good and He has been just pouring out grace and mercy upon us.
Everyone has expectations, its practically unavoidable. So I admit that I came here to Japan with some as well. We go on a missions trip or to serve those in need or to fulfill whatever He has called us to do and we expect God to work in certain ways or less people with certain things. One of the things that I absolutely love about God is that He never meets our expectations but He always exceeds them in ways and using things that we could never imagine.... All that to say that God has completely blessed and worked in ways that I never would have thought.
I would like to share one of those expectation bulldozers with you. I have wanted to come to Japan for many many years. I wanted to see and experience so many things when I got here. Whenever I had seen pictures or movies about Japan I was always amazed at how beautifully different it seemed.
In that way I was right, though almost everything that we have in the USA can be easily found in Japan, the look or the process of using everything is different. Also, the landscape is as beautiful and lush as the picture books and movies make them out to be. What God surprised me with is that even though I have enjoyed the new sights and the Japanese scenery, the thing that I have found most interesting and enjoyed the most about this mission trip has been the people.
I guess it comes as such a shock to me because like I said earlier, I have always wanted to go to Japan... almost as if it was the place or the location that was so special. God has allowed me to see and realize that it is not the place, the country, or the external things that make something special but it is the people, the souls and the eternal.
Coming half way around the world in search of something special I have realized that some of the greatest things and biggest blessings have come from the people that came with me. The people who I walked passed on Sundays, who I had seen sometimes in the pews around me and maybe even directed a "Good morning." towards once or twice. All of them incredible people of God that I have been so blessed by getting to know them. It makes we wonder what other blessings and opportunities have I might've missed because they were right in front of me?
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