When I am weak, You are strong!

As I have mentioned before one thing we talked a lot about at SPLICE was the stages of transition. I have to say that I am still in the chaos stage but hopefully I will exit this stage soon. Don't get me wrong I have loved my time here so far but this week was one of those moments where I felt like I couldn't say anything correctly in Spanish and at times having trouble communitcateing and I got hit with a big dose of homesickness. I have to say that I think one of the most humbling things in cross cultural ministry is when you aren't able to communitate what you want to communiate. This experience this past week has just lead me to cry out "God Help!" I was also just reminded of 2 Corinthians 12:9

"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me."


It's weeks like this past week that I am so incredibly thankful that where I am weak, God is strong!

Yesterday I got hit with a huge wave of homesickness. I don't know what happened exactly but I really started to miss my mom and my nieces and nephew. I think its probably because my niece, Amelia, is starting her first day of kindergarden tomorrow and I wish I was there, because I helped raise Amelia for the first 2 years of her life and I am really going to miss not being there for her first day of school. I also just really started to miss my best friend Sarah. I miss seeing her and hanging out with her. However, I'm thankful that in the midst of my wave of homesickness, God gave me something to smile about...Victor Raul and I have started to become real good buddies :) and as I was really feeling homesick, he comes running up to me and says with a smile on his face, "Alyssa, mi mejor amiga quieres jugar conmigo?" it was so cute and def put a smile on my face and it was def my yay duck moment for the day. :)

Music speaks to me so much and this morning at church God gave my a song that really hit home today and it was just a really good reminder that He is all I need no matter what is going on in my life. In English it's the song called All I need by Hillsong but I love the song SO much more in Espanol. :) I couldn't find the Spanish version so this one has English subtitles but its still really good!