Yesterday I met with Ben, Alison, and Doug for coffee at a small but popular coffee shop known as Global Village. We drank fancy drinks and sat in a wonderful building that was kept at a particularly comfortable 72 degrees. We talked about everything from our adventures overseas to what our future plans are and just what God might have in store for us. This was a wonderful time and yet it reminded me so much of where we had been and the people that we met and new ways that I can be supporting them, with prayer and any other means I have been blessed.
When googling humility it says the following: adjective. "having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance." Google is wrong. After meeting the man above and seeing what true humility is I would have to define it as: "knowing the importance of following a savior's example and taking the place below others out of love."
Here's the story. While staying in Kampala, Uganda Ben and I were graciously given the opportunity to stay under the roof of a children's home. We were welcomed with open arms and big smiles by the 'uncles' who helped care for the family style environment that the boys were adopted into. During our stay I saw the most amazing acts of service. The room we were staying in was extremely small and we had been putting our bags under the bed for about a week when he persistently offered to put them on his bed because he felt that they were going to get ruined. A few weeks later we noticed that he wasn't sleeping in the room and thinking nothing of it thought he was staying somewhere else in the home. He was. He had be sleeping on a disintegrated mattress on the floor! And all for our silly bags. At this point I realized what it meant to be a servant, sometimes its not only putting yourself below others but also the things they "care" about. This was also an amazing lesson on materialism. Needless to say we never let our bags take another human's place. This is only one of the many ways that I was blessed by someone caring for me in ways that I couldn't even imagine.
This is Alex and he is the most humble person I have ever met.
Thanks for reading!
_av
ps. if you want to give (letters, or support) to alex just email me at av@loveforthesakeoflove.com.
