As I am sitting here with a mountain of change to separate, I am overwhelmed with emotion as I think back over the comments from the children who collected this money.  Over the last two weeks, 2 schools are standing out in my mind.  Swift Consolidated in Bon Secour, Alabama and the Fairhope K-1 Center in Fairhope, Alabama.  Both schools were so gracious to let me come speak to their students and at each place, the childrens’ faces spoke volumes when they heard of the water crisis in Africa.  I watched them as I spoke and when I told how the women and girls must walk so far just to get water, their hearts were moved.  When they learned that children are actually dying because of the water they are drinking, their faces were full of concern.  One of the students even told her mom that she had prayed and thanked God for having a clean bathroom and she prayed that the children in Africa could have clean bathrooms and running water too.  How precious!!!  Another little boy was insistant on bringing in all of his change that he had collected in his piggy bank.  He told his mom that he had to do something because he didn’t want those children to die.  He believes that he can make a difference!!  He is making a difference.

I know that all of this work is going to bless many people.  I know that lives will be changed when our groups begin traveling back and forth to Africa.  But, what I am sensing more than that is that God has another plan.  He wants to bless me.  He wants me to have the blessing of being a part of this.  And for that, I could cry rivers of joy, rivers of gratefulness, rivers of overwhelmed humility!

I am not sure how much money is sitting on my table and in my entry hall, but I can tell you this.  That change was given to “change” peoples’ lives.  I have full faith that it will…. starting with me.