July 23, 2009

• Nepal Project’09 – It’s all about who you know

  
  

  July 23, 2009

  7:50AM Kathmandu time

   

  It is another cool and sunny morning here in
  Kathmandu.  The majority of the team,
  including Sofia, are still fast asleep after a fun night of partying and celebrating
  the orphans’ collective birthday yesterday night.  For 4 of them, this has been a tradition for
  3 years now, something that they use to mark their ages and also their new
  lives here with the Sapkota family; something that the newer orphans will appreciate
  increasingly as they grow older and stronger under the caring eyes of this
  organization and family.

   

  Yesterday was an interesting day for me
  emotionally.  There is much I still need
  to sit and percolate on before I should say what they are, but the process did
  bring me back to a fundamental truth that I hold for my own life.  It’s all about who you know.

   

  Ever since I became involved with the HOPE project, I’ve
  kept this reality in the back of my mind. 
  My relationship to the Sapkota family is in direct relationship with
  Mike Chen.  I was introduced to them
  through him and their tender treatment of me as a friend is because of their
  trusting relationship with Mike.  If it
  wasn’t for Mike, I would have never met them, nor would I have any sort of
  relationship with them.  Even if I gave
  money to their cause; sent clothes, toys, school supplies for the orphans;
  became a fan of their cause on Facebook; it doesn’t mean I have a relationship
  with them, a real interpersonal relationship with them.  The reason why I am connected to them and
  their organization is because of Mike Chen. 
  My relationship with him thus is the conduit that connected me to this
  family and what will always link me to them and be told in our history
  together.

   

  So it is with my relationship to the Father.  It was only through my Lord & Savior that
  I could ever approach the Father.  It was
  only because of what Jesus had done that made the relationship with the Father,
  the adoption and taking me in as a real son of His, a reality.  It is only because of the grace that the Son
  has extended to me, the invitation from Jesus, that made the connection to the
  Father possible.  As Jesus put it
  Himself, I can only come to the Father through Him, because He is MY WAY.

   

  My connection with the Father will forever be linked to
  my relationship through His Son.  The
  most amazing thing about this, is after all these years, the Son still accepts
  me despite my many character flaws, failures, hurts that I’ve inflicted on those
  that He loved and accepted.  In the face
  of the many slaps, spits, pushes that I’ve given Him through my years as a
  screaming follower, He still forgives. 
  He still welcomes;  He’s still
  here, within me.  How can one not love
  Him?  How can one not be in awe of such
  grace?

   

  Relationship and trust; things that the human soul
  needs; things that the Son gives to all who accepts;  things He longs for us to emulate with others
  too;

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