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Glimpses

Glimpses

“You know nothing, John Snow”.

The oft-repeated line from Game of Thrones played in my head repeatedly through our time at Samaritan’s Purse Orientation.  I stood on a mountain and listened to Ed Morrow, director of World Medical Mission, tell stories of his ministry in impossibly remote and hostile places.  I heard tales from Jim Moore, a ninja medical technician for Samaritan’s Purse, who gave example after example of what he called “God’s on-time supply chain” in which equipment would arrive in the warehouse at the precise moment of a need arising at a hospital in Africa. . .or when he traveled halfway around the world to repair a life-saving device and found the necessary replacement part literally sticking out of the sand in a desert junkyard.

I picture heaven less as streets of gold and more as the experience of perpetually having my mind-blown.  Finally seeing the behind the scenes – the plans that were orchestrated, the perfection, the love, the purpose.  Nothing accidental and nothing at all short of amazing.

I feel this week as if I saw just a little glimpse of it. . . that Ari, the girls, and I are just 4 drops of water in a massive tide.  We are being carried along by those around us, following those who have gone before us, and preparing the way for those behind.  Though it might appear chaotic or random at a glance, the tide is actually moving in perfectly orchestrated harmony.*

Orientation was just that. . .a reminder to orient and look north and have my mind blown.  Realizing that I know nothing, but catching a glimpse, an absolutely amazing glimpse, of just how loved we are.

*yes the tide is working in perfect harmony, but no, it is not Crimson as far as I can tell:)
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known”.