My heart breaks for these children.

This week God is working in my life more then I can ever imagine! This journey, in just one week, has shown me more about the Fathers heart and His extravagant compassion then I could ever imagine! At the beginning of this first week here it was an adjustment period. The language barrier was hard to overcome and being so far away from my family was an extreme adjustment but now I am loving every minute of what God is doing. Every where I look, God continues to open my eyes to something new and exciting.

In the town of Cieneguilla, there is poverty, dirty children and people, dirt mountains, no green, houses that are the size of my bedroom back home but yet it is beautiful. God has given me the eyes to see the way that He does, to break my heart in ways I thought it could not be broken. Every morning I look outside my window and just think to myself, why did God make this place to look this way? But yet it looks so beautiful, even if it is just dirt/dust everywhere.

The children at the home are so precious. They are always smiling and when they look up at me with those BIG brown eyes I begin to ache for them and to think they have no family but yet are so loved!! Today a little girl looked up at me and reached for me to hold her. I picked up her and she kissed my face and then smiled at me. After nuzzling me for what seemed like forever, she looked at me with those beautiful brown eyes and said, ¨te amo, mommy!¨ Oh my goodness, I lost it right there! If I could and finances would let me I would take her home with me in heart beat! These children have no mommy or daddy, these workers are all they know. God has blessed me with parents who support me in everything I do and I am so thankful for all God has given me. These poor children have nothing but yet are extremely loved. I know God has reason for me to be here and reveal to me His next step in my life...I am excited and ready to see and know what it is!

This next month and a half is going to be so amazing and I cannot wait for God to keep working and moving here in Cieneguilla, Peru. My prayer while I am here is that God will continue to break my heart for what breaks his and reveal to me what His next plan is for me in my life!