Compelled to Go: Take a Deep Breath and...Go!

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding
in all your ways acknowledge him
and he will direct your paths." Prov. 3:5-6

The title of this blog is just a little insight of how I felt writing this, so bare with me.
Life is hard. The struggle is real. And one of mine and Gallo's greatest struggles in life is the F WORD. Finances.I have said it before and I will say it again, it is a complete joy and blessing to trust in God in such a raw way and I wouldn't have it any other way. But that does not diminish the difficulty of paying rent, saving for a car, saving for a future family, and hoping to afford health insurance, all while pioneering and financially backing our brand new ministry Ilumina. But God never fails and we trust in that.
Yesterday I was having an internal dialogue with God about our situation.
He spoke two things, 1. Don't be ashamed. and 2. Communicate. How many times have you seen a homeless person on the street or a Go Fund Me account on Facebook? How many ministries and orphanages and missionaries do you encounter that need funding? I think in all the white noise of missions and ministries and Facebook accounts and updates, we become deaf, we scroll through. I have given a deaf ear or a blind eye many times, always with the thought, "Someone else will give..." or "Someone else will go..." or "Someone else will stop and help..." But this led me to remember a story that happened to us over the summer.
In July, Gallo and I took a trip to his parent's house in Nayarit in southern Mexico. It was a great time full of family, fun, food and of course the beach! Nearing the end of our vacation we went to one of our favorite beaches in Nayarit called, Chacala where we had gotten married only a year before. The water is the perfect temperature there and the waves are huge, so fun to swim in. When we go we spend hours upon hours in the water, it's the perfect place. As were swimming that day we were enjoying our time in the water floating on our backs and playing in the waves when suddenly we heard screaming. To our right we saw two people splashing and yelling for help, a strong rip current was dragging them out to sea. It appeared to be a small boy and an older gentleman. Gallo immediately began to swim towards them but they were far away and the waves made it hard to swim. My brother in law and I began to swim towards them too, I knew we wouldn't get there very fast but we couldn't just stay where we were and watch. Gallo finally got to the them as he is a strong swimmer. The boy was struggling and holding on to the older man who was trying to hold him up but going under himself. The older man told Gallo to take the boy. Gallo knew he couldn't save both the man and the boy, so he grabbed the boy as the man went completely under the water. I remember watching everything and screaming at the other people closer to the struggle to do something to help! Gallo struggled swimming against the current with the boy clinging to him. I continued to yell as loud as I could as I swam but the other people just watched not even swimming, not doing anything, just watching. I wasn't strong enough to get through the waves, they kept pushing me back. Finally another man arrived with a boogie board to save the older man who had gone under. Gallo arrived to the shore with the boy all out of breath. I went to shore as well in amazement that God saved all three of them. Then I looked out across the beach, there were 100's of people that had been watching this whole episode and only one man came to help. One.
With all the need that is around us, that someone to help is me and you. I want to give more, be more available and never give the excuse "someone else will..." Be obedient today and that obedience will bring so much more.

So in light of that I encourage you to give up the idea of "someone else will..."

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