During class this week Heidi Baker was encouraging us to spend time with the children and with the poor. She says she learned far more about the kingdom of God by sitting with the poor and with children then she ever did while earning her PhD in Systematic Theology.
After class while walking back to our apartment, I was wrestling with these thoughts as I battled a sinus infection and was not feeling great: I told God that I wanted to do something more math oriented and not to play with children. I didn't want to play with children right now. Could I not do something more administrately and serve you here?
About the time these thoughts went through my head, I turned a corner only two see a two year old little boy from the nearby village had locked eyes with me. He had his arms lifted high for a hug and a big grin on his face, running as fast as his legs would carry him straight for me. I bent down to him and he would not let go. My heart melted and I spent the rest of the day playing in the dirt, sitting in the hot sun, with a child I could not communicate with in any language other than love.
God had answered my question about whether I needed to spend time with children this afternoon with a simple demonstration. I have not see this child again but he was at the right place at the right time to speak to me.
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