Tears for the brokenness of this world.
Tears of repentance for my materialistic dreams, self-reliance, selfishness, desire to live in safety.
Tears of rejoicing in the truth that Jesus has come to bind up the brokenhearted and set the captives free.
Tears of rejoicing that Jesus will return again to take his children home to an eternity where we are restored.
Long story short, a young woman from a wealthy neighborhood in Tennessee was obedient to God's call on her life - she moved to Uganda and he is using her miraculously to accomplish his purposes there. He is using her story to convict my heart (and probably many others).
This book is not a guilt trip. It's a testimony of God's greatness. Of the truth of the gospel.
I am still processing it and don't have anything more insightful to say, except that I will be sharing it with everyone I know.
Go get it. Immediately :)
If you can't stop what you're doing right now and go get it, here's the link to her blog... a good place to start.
And THIS is the website for her ministry. Perhaps all the women in your family should get a necklace from this ministry for Christmas this year?!?!?
