God’s Up to Something
"As We Forgive" Documentary
I love how God works. He seems to stitch our lives together with people, divine meetings and experiences that form a pathway to his purpose for our lives.
If you’ve read any of my previous blogs from earlier in the summer, you’ll know that I’ve had a burning in my spirit for the continent of Africa…a development that spans back to years ago when I was in a much different place in life and thinking.
But over the past couple of months, I became busy with the joy of having my daughter in town and the chaos of helping launch a start-up business venture, and somehow I lost focus with where my God was leading my heart for the future.
This morning I went to a prayer meeting for Africa that is regularly held in a Senate office, and we had a guest who spoke briefly before the prayer time. She is an American University grad student who made a documentary about the Rwandan genocide and specifically the powerful stories about how God has moved the hearts of many people to reunite and reconcile with the people who murdered their family members. As We Forgive, began as one student’s master’s thesis and now is being endorsed by the president of Rwanda and is being shown all over the country and in public schools as a tool for healing and reconciliation. Other amazing developments and projects have been spun from this one film, and it’s incredible to see how God can explode the efforts of one person into a huge movement of good in the dark places of the world. You can watch a trailer of the film by clicking here. There will also be a showing - with a new and powerful epilogue that was just recently shot and edited – at the new Capitol Visitor’s Center on Sept. 16 at 6pm. Over the course of 100 days in 1994, nearly a million people were murdered in Rwanda. The destruction is unfathomable.
As I sat in the room and listened, my heart once again was gripped with a passion to be a part of what God is doing and wants to do there. I am reminded that God can do anything, with anyone, at any time. He is reminding me that he will “regurgitate” the dreams and purposes that He intends for our life at the right moment if we are completely dependent and surrendered to Him and His calling for our lives.
Once again, I stand ready saying, “Lord here am I, send me.” The anthem, You Said, once again rings in my spirit.
I know that I’m not headed to Africa immediately, and I have no idea when or what it will look like in the future, but I am determined to stay focused on His path for my life, and not some contrived thing that I can produce or come up with. The Lord is blessing with a new venture that I am involved with that may provide both the time and resources to actually travel and invest in what God is doing in the continent. It is not something that I would have expected or seen coming, but then again, the Lord seldom seems to move in the timing and method that I expect…and that’s OK with me!
