The past couple weeks I have been very blessed, after being the only girl student on my YWAM base and the only American, God sent me 8 Americans and 7 of them are girls! It is a group from The World Race that have been traveling for 10 months and this is there last and final month. I can not being to express how much of a blessing they have been to me. They have adopted me into their group from the very start and have loved on me and prayed for me and laughed with me and eaten way to much ice cream with me. 

This past weeks I have been able to go out and do ministry with them and I don't think my heart has never been so full. It was the moment I had been waiting for. As we walked the streets we were greeted by so many sweet kids. That was the moment this little girl ran toward me, hugged me so tight, and looked up at me with her big brown eyes. I grabbed her hand and she said nothing but I was so captivated by that moment and how simple the love of Jesus is and how simple that little girl showed it to me. As we went to different homes and just talked with people and loved on people and prayed with people my joy only grew. 

I am thankful for Gods timing even when I so eagerly want something, I have learned time and time again he is an on time God. 

I have been so blessed by this group of people they have encouraged me and challenged me to be better. I am thankful for the goodness he poured out upon them and the sense of adventure. So thank you World Racers for coming to us and blessing YWAM Livingstone you have made a mark on this place and on my heart. 

In this past week I was reminded of one of my favorite Bibles verses John 13. As Jesus is  talking with his disciples and washing their feet they have so many questions and he simple states “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.””

‭‭I love this verse because I have experienced it in my own life time after time, in the midst of life I do not realize what Jesus is doing I don't know where he is planting seeds or where he may be furthering his Kingdom or where he is working in my own life, until I look back at the season and I have those ah ha moments where I can point and say "that time was so hard but God was working." Sometimes I even laugh at the goodness of God when it felt like everything was crazy or not making sense in life it's when he is doing something and he is sitting there saying to me "Karlie, you do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand" 

So I am not some great theologian and I am not perfect in my understanding of God or the Bible, but frankly no one is. This is my little two cents of the week. God knows, he is always working and always moving in us whether we see it or not.