the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

1 Peter 5:10

And after you have

suffered a little while,

a kind and caring little girl who loves to dance and play, was born the youngest of four children in a poor rural village in the country of Nepal. Nepal is an impoverished country where access to education is often very limited and under valued due to the pressing need to simply survive. As a result, many Nepalese men work as laborers because they are unable to read

or write. Kamala’s father worked as a driver.

Kamala’s family was getting by on the surface but a problem had begun to brew underneath. Kamala’s father was struggling with alcohol. One day while at work, her father drove while under the influence of alcohol and got into an accident.This left him paralyzed and unable to continue to work as a driver.

Kamala,

Since her parents were now unable to provide for Kamala, they began looking for help. They heard about Tiny Hands’ Holy Home for orphaned or high-need children. Located in Pokhara, Nepal, and run by two loving parents, Holy Home provides an atmosphere of love and joy to kids who have known difficulty and despair.

The children at Holy Home all attend school and are also involved in their local church where they learn of God’s truth and His great love for them. They will remain a part of this family until they finish secondary school and/or are prepared for life outside the home. As a family, the children gather each night to sing, dance, pray, and talk together. It is a wonderful atmosphere.

When Kamala first came to Holy Home she was a very sad little girl. Her new family would encourage her by reminding her that she was brave and strong, despite all of the difficult things she had seen and experienced at such a young age.

Mithun, the father of Holy Home soon noticed that

Kamala had a gift of caring for others. She gravitated towards those in need. She was always willing to be a helper around the house with cooking, cleaning, and other chores. He began to tell her that she could be a great nurse. It was then that Kamala became interested in becoming a nurse.

Kamala, now 17, and has lived at Holy Home for the past eight years. By God's amazing grace, she just

graduated from secondary school and is now attending Manipal Nursing School in Pokhara!

I am grateful and enjoying my studies

despite the challenges. My hope, after I

complete Nursing School is to seek an

opportunity to study medicine abroad and

then bring that knowledge and experience

back to help the rural Nepali. Being a nurse

is a good profession because it includes

loving and caring for those who cannot take

care of themselves. I am so grateful to have

this opportunity to grow and learn in the

area of Nursing. I am thankful to God for

taking me from a hopeless situation into

one that I could grow and thrive in.

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Kamala's biological family is encouraging her to study hard in nursing school because no one else in their family has had the opportunity at an education and she is blessed to have this opportunity.

We all suffer. It’s a language we can all understand. Pain, defeat, hardship, loss. In one form or another, each of us has walked its difficult path. A path that none of us would have chosen if we were in charge.

Yet time and time again, we hear, we read, we notice that suffering births something beautiful in us, through us.

It occurred to me that suffering is a lot like giving birth. If you have been apart of any birthing process you know that it involves a great deal of suffering before the glorious miracle of new life is revealed, given. The birth pains were excrutiating, nearly unbearable, but in just

a few moments time, the pain fades and we relish in what the work brought forth. We think…incredibly…shockingly….it was worth it.

Over time, and only because of His grace, the gentle and relentess hand of God guides each of us to see areas where our unique form of suffering can be used for good. And we are invited to step forward, yielding the shield that was carefully built in us, birthed through our suffering, for someone else.

Could it be that our suffering is not ultimately for our good, but also the good of someone else? So that they could live, be encouraged, be free….Could

Stay tuned for next week's

story of redemption.

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our suffering not only be so that I could be something new, but also that God could use me to be apart of someone else’, newness.

That’s the gospel, right? Jesus’ life was marked by the suffering He did for you and for me. He experienced great suffering so that WE could live free from the dominion of sin here on earth and forever with Him in heaven.

Nothing is as counter-intuitive as suffering being good. No one wants to sign up for the school

of suffering. But suffering can be a powerful instrument of spiritual growth-a means of grace, a means to salvation for you and for those who God has placed in your care.

(Psalm 18:30) “This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.”

Are you willing to let your suffering be used for good today?

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