I have loved the Lord since I was a child and at a young age He gave me the call of missions. Now I am a missionary in Central Asia serving the Lord by bringing the Good News to the unreached. I also have Aspergers, Sensory Processing Disorder and Tourrettes Syndrom which often gives me struggles socially and issues with hightened senses that can become easily overwhelmed, however it has also given me many strengths I am able to utalize in the calling the Lord has given me. For example since I have always had to study how to act socially I find it easy to enter into a new culture and study to adapt to their social rules and structures. Since I'm a foriengner I am already strange and weird to them so they bairly notice the sometimes awkward social skills I have that other Americans would quickly pick up on. Language has always been a special intrest to me and I am very easily able to learn quickly, which comes in very handy in this setting! Living in a such a simple place with little commodaties I find my senses are not nearly as easily overwhelmed than when I am home in America, where I can hear the buzzing of all the light bulbs and tecnology all around or the constant noises that bombard a fast paced and busy place.
I have found that many others who struggle with the disorders I have are often discouraged in being able to be used to serve the Lord in this context. I hope to encourage others that it is possible to use their 'weaknesses' as strengths. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians that He "...delights in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." I know that God created me the way I am in the perfection of His will and that I, in obediance, must accept this and act out in the calling He has given me. To not do so would be blatiently disobedient and foolish.
My hope here is to be able write, encourage, share and ask questions when the time is respectable.
Blessings,
EW
I have found that many others who struggle with the disorders I have are often discouraged in being able to be used to serve the Lord in this context. I hope to encourage others that it is possible to use their 'weaknesses' as strengths. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians that He "...delights in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." I know that God created me the way I am in the perfection of His will and that I, in obediance, must accept this and act out in the calling He has given me. To not do so would be blatiently disobedient and foolish.
My hope here is to be able write, encourage, share and ask questions when the time is respectable.
Blessings,
EW
