Working

So I realized today that you can learn a lot about a person by how willing they are to jump in and do some manual labor.  My work duty every day from 3-5 is working on the Korean Organic Farm.  So this involves a lot of manual labor, shoveling, dirt, poisonous centipedes, and so forth.  It's hard work but I have found that this is a good time for me to not have to think about anything.  It's mindless.  Sometimes I need mindless hard manual labor that helps me just escape.  So, today our farm leader was asking people to turn compost.  There are like 15 large compost piles held together by wooden slats and it involves a lot of getting dirty, shoveling, using a wheelbarrow,  and bugs.  This is like the nitty gritty work on the farm and nobody truly enjoys it.  I didn't want to raise my hand because well, it sucks. Alas, nobody was wanting to do it so I raised my hand and bit the bullet.  It was then that God spoke to me and said, "Marianna, if you can't shovel some dirt and serve me, how can you ever help the poor and sick in other countries and serve me, do you think one is greater than the other? I am producing in you good character."  At that moment, my whole attitude changed, because I realized that in all things I want to glorify Jesus whether I'm shoveling dirt and nobody sees it or whether I'm serving the sick.  He sees all and knows all, and I want to have a servant's heart.

Matthew 25:45 says: "And he will answer, I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me."


1 Corinthians 10:31 says: "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."

On another note, we find out our outreach options at the end of this week and maybe deciding where we want to go.  I still have no clue where God wants me.  So I'm praying about that for now.  I know a bunch of people have been texting me asking if I have a paypal account for you to support me during outreach, I am gonna figure out how to make one of those like tonight.  I'll try to figure out how to link it to here for you who wanted to support me.  Thanks for your prayers and encouraging words.  I'm finding out a LOT about myself this week and I'll go into further detail about that when I have processed it. :)