KUSHIKA

Kushika: v- to be held

Today, I met with my best friend Rachael who just got home from Tanzania on a Medical Missions trip. She came back with a heavy heart for many of the people that she met while she walked through the country. She spoke with tears in her eyes about the words God was speaking to her.

Kushika is Swahili for "to be held". Rachael went to Africa with one thing for certain in her heart... to reach the people of Tanzania and to give them hope; to show them that the promise was that when everything in this life fell, we'd be held.

She came back with stories of how poor these beautiful people were, but how rich they were in spirit. How thankful and joyful they were, even when they had little to show for it.

"This is what it means to be held, how it feels when the sacred is torn from your life. This is what it is to be loved, and to know that the promise was that when everything fell we'd be held." -Natalie Grant

Tonight, I sit and remember the stories of the babies I met in Arlington this past week. My heart is heavy for people. Life is tough, and sometimes it takes too much out of us to lift out own heads. We are tired and hungry and thirsty. We can't see the end and we wonder if it will ever come.

If you've had the sacred torn from you're life, remember that you are held. There is hope, and there is healing. You were never meant to face the heartache of this life alone. When it feels like you cant move on, when you cant take one more step, I pray that God will light your path just enough to show you where to plant your foot.

We must remember hope, and we must remember "Kushika". Remember what it is to be held. You are in better hands tonight.

Wherever you are, whatever you are dealing with remember that there is someone who is praying for you, someone who loves you, someone who believes in you and someone who wants to walk with you.

May you find Kushika tonight.