{ DAY 377 }

Last night as I watched him read that letter out loud in the school room filled with his peers and that one beautiful pearl wearing teacher, I had to choke back tears.  That’s what a good film can do.  Pull you right on in.  Can break your heart and resonate deep inside of you.  When the “misplaced” teen read a part of his story, his life poured out in thought ink more staying than any you find in a pen, that is when you could see that everyone else felt it too.  When he expressed his true raw feelings and it resonated, resonated deep what we all want.  To know that we are home.  Accepted.  Classroom 203 had become home.  And these mismatched and hurting teens from gangs, well they found wholeness when they found they were accepted.  Only when they stopped to see how they were so similar could they stop fighting each other.  And it resonated with me.  Resonated because I’m seeking home.  But my home isn’t in this world.  It’s in heaven.  But I see myself in the mismatched, broken teen.  The one who was wearing last years clothes.  The one in need of acceptance.  But just like those hurting teens found solace in a new family so have I.  And just like that classroom filled with all kinds of beautifully different colored skin my new family is a palette of varying shades.  A conglomeration of people from every tribe and nation.  The family that God is making and calling as his own.  Jesus is making whole in my soul all that is broken.  The rags that I was wearing have been removed and I stand clothed in righteousness from Jesus.  I’m lovely because Jesus loved me.  I’m accepted because he called me his own.  There is so much freedom in that.  Jesus shared his story and wrote me into his so that I might find hope.  “From this moment on the person that you were, that person’s turn is over.” That was what the teacher in the movie shared with her class of kids.  My Teacher said this to me from 2 Cor. 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”  I’m ready to live fully in that knowledge.  What’s your story?

(Musings after watching the movie Freedom Writers.  Please note that this movie has violence and at least one bad word.  It is based on a true story.)

AND Hannah, one of the sweet people that gave up their birthday this month for the kiddos, helped us bring the new total to this UPDATE! $75,967.51  Can we push it over the $76K mark today?!  Especially since it is a happy number post?!  3.7.7.  That’s a great reason to donate! 😉  Actually a good reason to donate is due to the fact that your donations are changing children’s lives in India.  Thank you!