I am back from my blogging hiatus. I know you are all [all like three of you...maybe less] are dying to hear what I have to say to feel enlightened. hahaha. Just kidding!
On with my entry...
Besides being a full-time student I also have a part time job at The Covenant School, or TCC for short. It's a small christian private school. I help out with the afterschool program [like a daycare] for kids whose parents can't pick them up right away.
Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday I head over after classes. My co-workers are super nice and the kids are adorable. On my third day as I was walking the kids out to the playground when a second grade girl, Emma, reached out to hold my hand. So cute!! I didn't even know her name nor did she know mine at the time. lol.
I love going to see kids like Nira, Kayman, Jessi, Matt, and little kindergardener Ryan with his big head and very loud voice. And even thought he punched his second grade brother in the face giving him a black eye, he is still precious.
Also there is this one kid named Eddy, he's a little korean fob boy in first grade. I love when he speaks english cause its super formal. When I have snack duty I ask him what he wants and his answer is always "Something delicious!" hahaha. Also when you say thank you he says "You are welcome!" not you're welcome like most people do. The first time I spoke korean to him he looked up at me with wide eyes and a look of amazement/surprise. He asked me "Are you korean?" I said yes. He said "I am korean too!" hahaha
Before I started working I had a mixed feeling of excitement and nervousness.
I was happy that I found a job that worked with kids, but also worried because I didn't know how the kids would accept me. BUT to kids there are no standards. They don't jusge and demand you to be a certain way in order to be your friend. They just talk, play, and love one another without holding back.
Yesterday after recess the kids were standing in line according to grade. There were only two first graders, Eddy and Kayleigh, and they just gave each other a really big hug! SO ADORABLE!
There was no reason except that they were friends :]
Once again God's word rings truth through and through. There is so much we can learn from these precious little souls. <3
2He called a little child and had him stand among them. 3And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. "
-Matthew 18:1-5
I'm sure this bible verse is familiar. Its one that has been coming back to me over and over again. I thought I understood this passage after working with KCC kids, but once again God humbled me and challenged me further. We need to love like children love and believe like children believe. Simply.
There is no need to question and wonder when it comes to God, cause God does not have hidden secrets and meanings. He lays it all out for us in the bible. Why do we make it so complicated and why do we search for truth when all we need to is ask? If we ask with full faith that God will answer, then He will.
Its not telling us to act like children, immature and naive. We need to study the word and understand it at a depth in order to be firmly rooted in the word of God. If we don't know the bible then someone could lead us to believe the wrong thing. So in that sense we don't want to be like children [Cause kids believe everything. lol]. I think He just meant in our faith and love we need to mirror the pure hearts of children.
I recently watch a documentary Ye-Kyung told me about called The Finger of God. [Go find it on Youtube! Its so amazing!!!] There truly is power in prayer! [something else God is constantly beating into my head cause I just always seem to forget it]
Near the end of the film there is a clip about Hedi Baker, this amazingly powerful woman of God. She is healing so many people in Africa [the blind, the crippled, the deaf, etc...] with prayer and not just any prayer but the prayer of children because their minds are not corrupted. When they pray they fully believe God will deliver, their hearts are not twisted and tainted with the sin of the world when loving Him and others.
Its so incredibly humbling. I am now twenty years old, I've lived on this earth for twenty years, but that means nothing. I walk around TCC and KCC with authority thinking I am above all of these kids, but when it comes to comparing sins I outnumber them no doubt and those numbers will only grow. They beat me! I lose!
