Transforming Trip

God has blessed me with eyes to see into the lives of people and honed these eyes while on this trip. I am not at liberty to share my understandings of Christ working in each heart, but you can speak to each of us to discover that which they percieve He has started within their hearts from this trip. What I am at liberty to share is my overall perceptions and thoughts as He has worked in me and through us as a team.

Steven Curtis Chapman sings a song about seeing the fingerprints of God on us, and nothing seems to say it better than that. On this trip, I have seen God's fingerprints covering the lives of our team, and I have seen each member of our team leave their fingerprints (who God has made us into) on this place and people, including the hearts of our host, Kent and Cheri.

We have come here to live and walk amidst the hearts of Croatians and our host, but mostly to do so along side of our Savior. When I spoke of the 'sweetness' of building a team, working as a team, coming as a team and living as a team, I have come to discover that the pastries here are not nearly as sweet and the ones we have at home, but the love of Christ rising in the hearts in each of us here has added incredible sweetness to our hearts as we work and live together. You see, sweetness comes in many ways, and there are many ways to 'taste' it.

How often, in the busyness of life, we relegate our lives to experience only the tangible, natural sweetness our tastebuds can experience. While it may temporarily satisfy our desire for such pleasure, it is only a temporary cure, even a mask of the true and deeper sweetness that our Lord wants to invest into us; the sweetness that can only be tasted with spiritual tongues, and enticed with spiritual eyes.

Can you see it? Can you taste it? Do you long for more of it? Again I say, oh taste and see that the Lord is good! There is NOTHING of richer sweetness than the presence of God, working in, amoung and through His people.