Sunrise..

For perhaps the first few times in my life, I actually enjoyed staying up late and waking up early (at about 5:00 am). Cambodian mornings are entirely different. The reason being that the sun rises at 6:00-6:30.

Now, being a fanatic, I disciplined myself to wake up just to do devotion with the kids. But I suppose that instead of blessing them, God has blessed me in various ways, yeah with me waking up at 5 am and being the first to wake up at times, I would holler into the rooms, giving them a good ol' wake up call. (its too bad i didn't have a loudspeaker *grins*).

Walking out into the darkness and just sitting there just looking at the sunrise was astounding.. from a pitch black sky, to a gradient of cyan, blue, yellow orange and red. Watching sillhouttes of palm trees sway side to side as they're blown by a breeze in the cool morning was surreal. Somehow every morning I do that, this verse from Psalms "Be still and know that I am God".... just hits me.

Devotion with them was amazing, as I enter each of the different dorms every dawn, you can practically see their hunger for the Word. A thrist for a word from heaven. Dispite each dorm being individual in their devotions, as I step foot into a dorm, they would be asking me the same question. "Good Morning Brother! Brother! Are you sharing today?", with a look in their eyes which noone could turn down. Back here, doing my quiet time alone just isn't the same. Yeah, I agree that we need solitude with God, but the fact that they just allow you to blend right into their groups and because they were just children that were so hungry for the Word... was amazing in itself...

Matt 19:14
Let the children come to me, do not stop them, because the kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.