As I’ve mentioned, last weekend a photographer/journalist
from MAF came with David and I to watch us during a radio installation. One of
the benefits of this, (along with coming away with awesome photos of me looking
like I’m doing something clever and exciting) is that it provided a good opportunity
to reflect on what brought me here and all that the short time here has brought
to me, as I was questioned about my reasons for coming to PNG and what exactly
it is that I do. As you may well know, I didn’t come to PNG because of a deep
desire in my heart for a particular people, nor for a particular work to be
done, but rather, because of a list. A list of what I felt God wanted me to be
doing with my life. A list that was as broad as it was diverse. A list that
perfectly matched the job description of the role that I now have. But it is
one thing to read a job description, it is another to tell others about it, and
it is yet another totally different thing to live it. This week marked five
months of me being here in PNG and boy has it gone quickly. It some ways it
feels like it was only yesterday that I arrived, but in other ways it feels
like it’s been a lifetime with how settled I feel. Even so, with as much time
as I have spent learning about the different jobs and roles that I will be fulfilling,
it is only in the last two weeks after completing my language training that I
have really started to take up the job description.
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| LuAnne can make even me gormlessly waiting around look cool!.. |
And I feel so blessed, because you never really know what I
job description will look like in real life, but this once has lived up to all its
promises. I sat in my office this week and thought about how great it was that
I got to create and put in place a plan which will ensure our staff get the
skills that they need. A plan which will hopefully long out live my time here,
one that will continue to keep on giving. But along with this long term working
towards the future, I get to work in the immediate too, as I knew that
afternoon I would be going to the local hospital to help fix a steriliser. Work
that would help people today, right here, right now, and work that let me “play”
with electronics too. A job that was fulfilling and rewarding and also plain
fun. I get to work alongside great colleagues, to help teach them, and to build
great friendships. I’m in a job where people come to me with personal problems,
and I can say; “lets pray about that”. I have a job where I get to start every
day praising God, praying to Him and reading the bible with my colleagues. I
have a job that connects me with people so that I can spend my spare time
showing the Jesus film who don’t know the story of His life, and so that I can
share God’s word and encourage groups of Christians. This Job not only promised
all I could want, it also gave me all I could want. Or should I say God not
only promised to give me everything I could want, but He gave it to me too. And
He always does, because He has given us Himself. All we have to do is follow
Him.
P.S. I'm going away next weekend, so next weeks blog will be published on Tuesday instead of Monday...
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