Flood in Jakarta...

While running/sweating on the treadmills yesterday, I noticed on T.V. a very familiar scene/picture on the screen before me. It showed people scrounging for food, looking for shelter and wading to the nearest surface to get out of the 'up-to-the-roof' level of flood water in Jakarta, Indonesia. I heard news this morning about the OMF Guest Home in Jakarta (the place where I stayed during July 2006) flooded and missionaries being evacuated. Though many OMFers have enough food supplies, many (and I mean MANY) do not have such luxuries and are starving. I hear this news and my heart cries. Even more real, because I've been there... seen the people and have prayed for them as we walked around the busy streets of Jakarta.

I've been focused so much on myself and where my life is heading lately that I forgot about how real the rest of the world is around you. Though I can never get away from foreign affairs/world events, I like to be balanced... glocal thinker! Hope Farell is okay... (Note: As you can see, there's a lot of stuff on my mind... I'm not coherent and I'm not making much sense... which is a sign that I'm in transition).

Funny... when you focus on yourself, sin/temptation/deviance/wavering/anxiousness gets so much greater. It is only when we focus on God can we have victory over human sin, temptation, deviance, wavering and peace.

Lord, thank you once again for your grace and mercy in my life. Whenever I fall, you pick me up. Whenever I feel defeated, you encourage me... Lord, why would you have such mercy for a sinner like me? I cannot understand and/or fathom... all I know is that you are Good and your Love endures forever... God, I praise you for your grace and love in and for my life.

J