"Either do, or do not. There is no try."--Yoda
When I was younger, and really just up until about a month or so ago, I used to talk about how I'd love to visit our sponsored children and meet them in person. But I'd always talk about it like it was just a silly dream that could never be reality.
When we were making our 100 Things To Do Before I Die lists a few weeks ago though, I started thinking about how, when Matthew studied abroad for a semester in South America with ACU, he went to Paraguay, where Miguel and Santiago live. He could have visited them. Easily. Why on Earth would I think that this is not something I could do?
Then, 2 days ago I got a letter from Miguel, who is now 18 and out of the program and doing well, and in his letter, he asked for a picture of us and said that he would really like to meet us in person and that stopped for in my tracks. In my letter I wrote him today, I told him, "me too--I'd really like to meet you in person one day too."
And then last night I stumbled across a friend's blog from church who has gone to China a couple of times and visited the orphanage where the little girl she sponsors lives and she knows her. Really knows her.
If she can do that and meet the children she sponsors like that, why can't we? Now, getting into the Congo to visit Joel might be a little tougher than Paraguay right now, but we can wait it out. And keep praying that one day there will be peace there.
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