Indy NMI Blog

  We never quite know what the patient who comes into our exam room is going to tell us or what we are going to find on exam.  A women complained of having something coming out of her bottom.  Assuming it was going to be a hemorrhoid, Bill looked and instead found a squiggly worm poking his head out to say Hi.  After successfully removing the work, he told me to go and look in his trash can.  Seeing it in the trash didn’t quite do it justice, so Bill picked him up and proudly showed him off.  I am glad that was in someone else.
Source: Not very appetizing from Erin Meier – Asia Pacific

As I was leaving my house to go back to work after lunch, I noticed a flower in the middle of the grass.  I stopped and looked at it closer because it wasn’t in a flower garden area, but in the middle of the grass.  I showed it to the McCoys and they said they had been cleaning out some of their flower pots and threw some of the bulbs on the ground, and one of them apparently bloomed. As a missionary it is good if you are able to bloom where you are planted.  At times you can feel like a discarded bulb – like you are just thrown out and that you don’t matter because no one back home keeps in touch with what you are doing, or you can feel that you are in a new place without the comforts of “home” to help you grow and thrive.  Despite the challenges, part of being a missionary is to learn to make do in your new environment, your new home with the resources available to you, different as they maybe from what you once knew, if you are going to survive. It has been almost 8 years since I first came to PNG.  At times I have definitely felt forgotten and discarded and alone, but I thank God that I have learned how to adapt to the resources, the people and the culture and have been able to survive and thrive here.  I am thankful for the chance…
Source: Blooming where planted from Erin Meier – Asia Pacific

There are not enough words to describe to you all that God is doing and teaching me. These past months have been full of challenges and opportunities, in all areas of my life. Still, my constant prayer continues to be, “God, your will be done..”. That’s a pretty intense prayer. That’s a prayer that means I have to trust. Completely. No matter what, it’s always a choice to trust. I can’t see what’s before me, but I do know who goes before me… and I know my God is good, constant, full of love and amazing grace. These first half of the year has been very intense! Full of youth events, meetings, conferences and there was an interesting question that kept coming up. I was asked by many leaders, “what’s your vision for this new ministry you’re heading up? what’s your big dream?”  But who am I to dream without God? There is nothing that I desire to do without God leading the way. Yup, every single step and detail. There is nothing that I desire more that to God to be constantly present; in words, actions but especially my dreams.  My vision is that God’s Kingdom may come, just as it is in heaven! You know what that means? I’m requesting A LOT of Jesus presence. Everywhere and all the time. The kind of Jesus presence that shakes up things. The really good kind of shaking. The kind where you speak truth into people lives.. without even speaking. The kind of Jesus…
Source: Thy will be done. from Liliana Reza – South America