If you ask any of my friends they can tell you… I have a life motto.
“If you’re not good at something, just don’t do it.”
Its true. I have lived by that motto… until moving to a Spanish speaking country. There is nothing more humbling than being in “Spanish Kindergarten” as I took to calling language school. Well, I thought there wasn’t anything more humbling. But here I am.
This training has challenged me to the end of my language ability, but also to the core of my heart and who I am. I realized, again, how prideful I am. I have found myself thinking over and over again… if only this was in English, I could do it so easily. Well praise the Lord that it isn’t because I would have been missing the point.
Tomorrow I have to do a counseling session with a kid that I have never met before while 8 national Spanish speakers and 2 fluent gringas watch me on a TV screen. Really?!? Awesome. Lets take all the things that are hard for me and squeeze them into one 45 minute session. Great.
But it will be great. I have had to pray and rely on the Lord this week so much. I know that the words that I speak will be His words, and the work that happens in the life of this child will be His work. If he wants me to speak clearly, I will. And none of it by my own strength.
So, I concede to doing something things that is not a strength and just pray that God will get the glory. You can pray too… you know… if you want. :)
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