Hello beloved family!
I just want to start this post off by saying that I am sorry! Oh so sorry for not updating you for over a whole month already! This is my fault for not keeping to my schedule that I posted and it is something that God is working on in my life: discipline. So I humbly ask for your forgiveness and I will be posting bi-weekly from here on out! Without further adieu, my last month's story...
As the title says, I have gone through some very hard times in my life. I am in a place of debt right now, owing money to the YWAM base here in Cáceres as well as owing money to MasterCard and it doesn't seem to be going away... Because of this, it has put me into a very interesting place in my life. For I have never been here (I am sure that all of you can agree, being in debt is NOT somewhere we like to be nor want to be!) and I hope that I am not here for long. But with not being here, in a place of debt or not being able to pay my own ways and am living off of financial support that others give me, He has been able to teach me things that I never would've learned otherwise. The most important of them is to praise Him in all times, good and bad.
To tell a quick story, I went back to Canada for Christmas! Hooray! My wonderful parents purchased a ticket for me to come and visit for a couple of weeks and it was a wonderful time! I got to see lots of family, visit some church friends and started writing a song with one of my friends who is an amazing drummer. It was a wonderful time there being able to see snow again and freeze my butt off in -30°C weather. I had a return ticket, and it came to the date that I would be leaving for Spain once more. Now this flight wouldn't just be get on a plane and hooray! I'm in Spain! No. This was sleeping in the Toronto airport, staying in the New York airport for 9 hours and then being in Madrid, where I then had to take a train to Cáceres to back to my home. What a trek. Especially in the Toronto airport.
I've never slept in an airport before, so I figured that it would be a good idea to find a locker to be able to put my stuff in for the night so that I would be able to get some sleep before I had to wake up to get in a lineup for my connecting flight. Good idea, no? Well I didn't have enough money to be able to pay for the locker... So that sucked. But amongst it all, being in debt, not having enough support coming in monthly, being alone in an airport close to midnight, all of it just came crumbling down and I felt abandoned. Knew I wasn't, but that didn't matter, all that I knew was emotions. And I cried, didn't care who saw me, I felt alone, very alone. Miraculously, I messaged my girlfriend, Maartje, and she woke up from her sleep (which doesn't ever happen if I were to message her in the middle of the night), so that was God right there, but I was too blind at the time to see the help He gave me. And what did He tell me when I was crying out to Him? "You have to praise me, Jack, all the time; right now, when you are in a desert place, or later, when you are on a mountain top." So that's what I did, I started worshipping Him. And guess what? Peace. Peace came over me and nothing changed except for my heart, which is quite a lot! For God wasn't/isn't after my situation, but after my heart. And it was a really good lesson! Learning how to praise Him in trials and tribulation. So I am thankful for the lesson, as well as much more!
So I have gone through some interesting times, and now I am here alone in the YWAM base in Cáceres. We just sent out an outreach team from the DTS and I was not able to be on it. Not going to say that that is unfortunate, because I know that there are awesome things awaiting me in these coming months and I am already seeing it. This gives me a great opportunity to make my music a lot more seriously. So I am practicing guitar a lot and I am going to be practicing bass a lot more as well and my singing and everything! As well, I am going to be taking it upon myself to learn Dutch so I can speak with Maartje and her family in their native tongue. I am excited for these coming months! I hope that more opportunities come up for adventure.
As I mentioned in this post, I am in dire need of support financially. I do not get paid by YWAM on any basis, it is volunteer work, I am a missionary and I am in need of your help. Whatever you can do, even though monthly payments are the best way (I have a special set up that you can do for monthly payments that makes it that you are able to get a tax receipt for donating to me and makes it easy for you and for me! So message me if you are interested in going that direction), but one time donations are just as good, for like I said, I am in a lot of debt and need to get out of it and I can only do that with your help. Here is my PayPal address if you want to wire me money over the internet: jack.reggin@gmail.com (you can also email me with that same address if you have any questions or anything). And send any cash or cheque donations to this address:
Project Funding Office
PO Box 57100 RPO East Hastings
Vancouver, BC V5K 5G6
Thank you for sticking with me through all of this, in my failings and my successes! I love being able to share my life with you guys!
Blessings and love to you my family!
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