June 16 - Toga night

 




Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

 

 As we approach our final hours in Greece, it’s starting to settle heavily in my heart. The number of memories, the people around us, and the healing process in all of us these days.


Definitely, not what I was expecting...


 As I run through the memories and moments, I just want to evaluate myself to be present in all of them. Sometimes we look and experience from a distance what we can’t comprehend or face.


There is still much to learn, assimilate, and process from this class, trip, meeting… I don't know what to call it.  It has been so much in such a short time that I still need to sit down to process it and let it settle in my heart and soul.


What I am sure and confident about this moment is that God Himself designed this moment in time for me, for us, to meet, here, out of the ordinary and away from the fast routines. He made a divine appointment for us, and that is the most amazing thing of all.

 


 Today as we dance the night out in our Toga day/night graduation experience kind of thing, my heart is full of overwhelming, overjoyed, and wondering.

 


Our paths will be different, nothing will ever be the same again. I compare this time to when Moises faced God’s presence, he was covered in His glory and even his appearance was different. He needed to cover his face or people in the camp would die as they saw him.

 

 Can I be able to cover my face after looking at God, after seeing His ways, after facing the pain and the healing process, after all that We learned, after all that I faced?

 

 How can I eventually uncover myself to be present and prepare the path for others to experience God in other dimensions, from the simple wrapping to the complex?

 

 One thing that Dr. Lawson mentioned while driving us back yesterday from the mall faced me directly. It was like a statement from Heaven. He kind of says…Respond, sit with the ideas, tell your statement, debate with the arguments, let them out, think about them without wrong or right, without needing to have the right option or the need for approval from others. The Greek people do that.

I might need to remind myself of this during the rest of my life, that’s how deep was for me His words.

 So then… as we party with our bed sheets as Toga outfits my heart is full of joy wondering of the days to come. We became a family with all that entails. We have each other, with our ups and downs, with our breakdowns and healing processes, with our traumas and triumphs, but we have each other, we'll be fine. It's okay. We can discover each other and show our faces, they will be different, but everything will be fine.


    



Today, a season ends, and a new one starts for all of us. As we sang, danced, and laughed I saw how we became just one, not because we were perfect or complete just because God loved us. We are His image.

I remember John 17:20-23

Jesus Prays for All Believers

20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

I smiled and I was overwhelmed with Joy. We are one and the world will see that you send us, so the World can see Jesús in us. My prayer from now on, please Lord, help us to love well. Amen


Jessica Cuadrado Sanjurjo

 

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