A Heart Transplant

Well friends, it's only a matter of time. I'm counting down the days, and it still continues to amaze me when I think about how God has so graciously and faithfully provided a way for me to make it to this point. From fund raising, to other post graduation issues involved and etc., the Lord has humbled me and blessed me in countless ways. In times when I felt discouraged and almost gave up, He came through and showed me that all I had to do was submit and trust Him.

For the past few weeks, I have been corresponding with the on-site missionary and co-founder of the Heart of Christ Ministry, Gracie Murphree, and she has shared with me some of the stories of the children and young girls that I will soon meet. She has told me about 1 year-old Alejandro, whose teenage mother Karla was raped by her own father; Baby Moises was born with a huge tumor and was abandoned at birth; 2 year-old Diego, who was abandoned by his mother and whose father is also his great grandfather; 9 year-old Ericka and 5 year-old Ivannia, who both have cerebral palsy and were neglected and abandoned; 16 year old Alicia, who was abandoned at a young age and did drugs while she was pregnant with baby Ashley, who is now 1 month old; 20 year-old Karin, who is deaf, was abused by her family and left to beg on the streets of  Tegucigalpa; and 16-year old Heydi, who was raped by her uncle and has a 1 month old child, baby Christopher. They are expecting two more young girls, Milagro, who is 14 and 4 months pregnant by rape, and Melissa, 17 years old and has a 3 month old daughter, Keidi.

When I first read their stories, my heart got really heavy. I'm definitely looking forward to meeting them, but a part of me wonders if I will be able to reach out to them (more so with the girls than the kids), especially considering the language barrier. These girls have been through so much that I can't think of how I would even start. But then again, there's that voice in my head saying, "wait a minute Veronica, what happened to learning to trust God? who's abilities are you REALLY depending on here?" Hmmm...good point. I feel like i'm going to be hearing from that little voice A LOT in the next two months. But that's a good thing, because let's face it, as human as I am, there's only so much I can do on my own, but with God, He can move mountains!

So...about my title, Su Corazon y El Mio, which translated means: " His Heart and Mine". On this trip, I think God is going to be showing and teaching me a lot about His heart and what it truly means to love with the same kind of love that He has for us. It's going to be about Him showing me His heart, and letting that sink into my own, almost as if I were getting a heart transplant (i.e. replacing my heart with his, for those of you who are visual learners..hehe). But it doesn't stop there. Of course, that's going to be a learning process, but as He teaches me things day by day, it is my hope that I will be able to share His heart and His love with those we will be ministering to.

Thanks so much to those of you who are partnering with me on this trip through your support and prayers. More posts to come! God is going to do great things!

Bendiciones!