What am I learning? - Allison

As I am here and see all the needs around me and the opportunities, God is reminding me that my identity is not found in what I do for Him. I am already His child and dearly loved. This whole year has been good for me to learn this and I think another layer of the veil is being removed. To see right in front of me the difference in an orphan versus a child adopted is showing me that God has adopted me as a daughter. Therefore, I should not live as an orphan, striving to be loved or noticed, and living as if there might not be enough. Instead I should love as one dearly loved, adopted as God's child, trusting His love never fails, trusting He always has enough for me in His kingdom, and He already has good works prepared for me to do.

There are times that I pray for grace to eat rice for meals and grace with not much privacy, but this experience has been going far beyond my expectations. Classes too have exceeded what I thought. The missionaries from around the world that have come here to teach us have been great models for us to learn from.