Bigger Than Us

I'm sitting here thinking about how home seems so close, yet so far at the same time. I sometimes find myself wishing I were sick so that I could just spend the day in bed. This is not what I want to be wishing. I want to be so filled with energy and excitement that it really radiates to the children and people around me. I really do love being here and love the people, but it's the people back home that I am missing. I want to hug them and actually know what is going on in their lives and not just find out random tid bits here and there. I hate talking on the phone, and now that is my main way of communication with my family and friends back home.
This morning while I was reading in 1 Corinthians I came across this verse. I must say I'm not sure if I have read it before, but if I have reading it this morning really just amazed me. 1 Corinthians 1:25 "For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength." When I read this verse this morning it kind of slapped me in the face a bit. How many times do I sit there and think, oh I can handle this on my own or I don't need any help trying to figure this out...I'll work it out on my own? I can be so stubborn sometimes that it really just made me stop and think. So many times we think we know better than God and it clearly says right here that God's "stupidity" (if we can say that he has any) is more intelligent than any wisdom we as humans have. It's so clear! How do we continue to forget that God is omniscient? Then it says that God is stronger than any man, his weakness is still stronger than the strongest man in the world. Think about that for a minute...it really is just blowing my mind right now. We think we are so great, strong and wise, yet God tells us that is nothing compared to his wisdom and strength. What an amazing God we serve!
Ok so some things that kids have said lately that were funny:

• "Um Miss I need to go somewhere else because I need to fluff"
• In front of an entire club of kids aged from 8-11ish I think, "So you know that boy Callum that came last week? Well we are going out."

Well for some reason those are the only ones I can think of right now...maybe I can remember some more later.

Oh one more thing...Please be in prayer for our group that Satan will have no place here, that he will not even be able to scare us because we know that God is on our side. Pray that he would not even have a foot in the door with us. Pray for God's protection.