"Let your light shine."

Matthew 5:16 says, "Let your light shine." This was our little Bible lesson this morning. After a very poor night of sleep, I woke up this morning to the children playing as I do every morning. I could hear them yelling, "M TiTi" which is what the yell every Sunday morning when Titi, our driver, walks onto the compound to take the children to church. On a normal Sunday Titi will arrive around 9am, take the kids to church for Sunday school and then comes back to pick up me and whomever else is still here for church. I went outside to ask Titi if he will come back for me after he drops the kids off. As soon as I step outside multiple children come running to me telling me they can't go to church because Titi can't take them. I went to talk with Titi who said that is true, he couldn't take them because he didn't have the Isuzu today. I called Mommy Nicole who was already at church, she said that they used the Isuzu to take the choir to a service. I told her if the kids couldn't go to church today that I would stay with them and send the older children who can just walk to church. She said that would be good and that we could have our own service here! That was also my plan if we weren't able to go to church. So a couple of the girls and boys who are in their early teens stayed back to help me with our little church service. I went to my room, asked the Lord what I should share with the children this morning, jumped on my computer and pulled up Google Translate to help me translate a short message for the children. The Lord gave me Matthew 5:16 and had me share with the kids about shining our light here with each other and to others we get the opportunity to meet by being nice. We talked about being a light for Jesus and how happy it makes Him when we shine a light by being kind to one another. I asked the kids how they are able to make the Lord happy by shining their lights and they shared how they can be kind to each other and show love to each other. We started the our service with worshiping the Lord by singing, one of my favorite things to do with the kids. I LOVE to watch and listen to them worship our Savior. Ever since I first came to Lifeline in 2006, worship with the kids is one of the ways I am most blessed by these sweet children. Though it was a different Sunday from what we are used to it was a fun and worshipful morning and I pray the Lord was blessed as I was definitely blessed to worship my God with these beautiful children I love so much!