Safe in My Father's Arms

It’s amazing the lengths God will go to draw a person to Himself. It is amazing the lengths He will go to heal and restore.

On my way here, I kept thinking “I am going to Costa Rica for 2 ½ months. What am I getting myself into?” I was excited and in disbelief it was actually happening. This is my second time in this country and I remember the first time I came the work that God did in my heart. A trip I cannot forget because it was in that time that God began to break the barriers I had put up in my life to keep the world out. A prisoner of my own brokenness. Yet He saw something in me and wouldn’t let me stay in that place.

Now I’m back. I’m back on my own, without a missionary team or organization. I simply came back to serve at an orphanage and study Spanish. I have only been here three weeks and already I am a different person than when I came.

Being in a home without internet connection has a way of making you less distracted with plenty of quiet time. Plenty of time for reflection and conversation with the Lord...

I have a beautiful Tico family I adore and spend time with until we exhaust all forms of communication. There is an upstairs porch outside my room. It's covered so when it rains I can still sit out here and overlook the beauty of the landscape. The mountains are in my backyard and I can see the clouds come down when it rains. It really is beautiful. It’s a rainy morning today and I have a cup of Costa Rican coffee that my tica momma brews for me. (She already knows me so well.) These are simple little things...but these little things draw me to my Father’s heart. When I think about how big of a God He is and how much He delights in wooing us...it really is amazing.

A little coffee and a quiet porch. It's where I have been meeting with Him since I arrived in this beautiful country. It's where I get to steal away by myself and just talk to Him. I know He is with me all day long - but I love the moments when its just Him and me.

I encourage you, put away the distractions.

Sit with Him.

Read His Word.

You don’t even know how much He longs to be with you. You are the subject of His adoration – one that He deeply delights in.

The distractions are keeping you from hearing it.

Draw close Beloved.

He’s waiting for you.