Session five and Still Alive

After spending 2 busy days with the new campers of Session 5, I was quarantined to my bedroom for the rest of the week. I simply have a virus resulting in a sore throat, but the possibility of a child catching a virus is too great a risk considering that their health is already poor and their immune system is low. Most of my three days away from the children, has been spent drinking orange juice, sleeping, listening to Misty Edwards and teachings of Pastor George on my Ipod. It has also been a very convenient time to be by myself and to lay under the ministering of Holy Spirit.
It has been an interesting and at times difficult experience for Josh and I to be away from our Christian comforts. We are away from church and pastors and our Christian friends and living in a little community with humanitarians and no other Evangelical Christians. We spend our days playing with sick kids and our constant prayer is to carry His Presence.
I don't promote in any way, to live in a Christian bubble where we don't even touch unbelievers. I actually discourage such a lifestyle far from what I believe the heart of Jesus is. But I think there is a great importance in being fed spiritually and surrounding ourselves with people who love Jesus and live to serve Him.
I believe that this is a time where God has been teaching us about being content with where we are, His joy and His close fellowship. Shouldn't we be able to go anywhere and just take Jesus with us, being full of His joy in the most frustrating, discouraging situations?
It's like a guarantee in life that discouragement will come, offences will come and trials will come. We must allow the fruit of the spirit to overcompensate for those things. I long to live in such a way where I move by His beauty and grace and am willing to decide every day "Jesus, I am yours. I will go to a place full of Christians or I will go to a place where it is just me and You."
I pray for an increase in joy and such a delight in my saviour, that those around me will even just simply think "maybe there is a God and perhaps this God loves me."
I pray for long-suffering: pushing through and trusting God, that His purpose is bigger than I can understand.
Let's pray for a serious desire to give up our lives, give up our comforts and say 'yes'. I have so much to learn and experience in this area but it is plain to see that their is nothing in this life that is satisfying but, serving Jesus. There seems to be nothing left but to consider everything else worthless but Him, and surrender.
Let us be a carrier of His presence to the darkness around us.