Today was a Good Day

Today was a good day. I woke up and went to school. There wasn't very many kids today either, but we did what we could.  While I was teaching I looked over my shoulder and noticed all the teachers at the school were gathered around watching me. It made me so nervous. It turned out OK, though. After I was finished I realized they just wanted to learn, as well. One teacher, that was about the same age as me, graped my flash cards as soon as I was finished and started trying to read them to me. He did pretty good. Except he could not pronounce the "r". Most Haitians have trouble pronouncing anything that starts with an "r" but this guy was really bad. I would say it and then he would say it wrong. Then, I would say it and he would say it wrong. I started laughing so hard I thought I was going to pee my pants! He was hilarious. Of course, he was laughing about it to.
After school I walked up the hill and another guy I work with ran up to me and told me to sit down and wait. I didn't know what he was doing, but the next thing I knew he had climbed to the top of a tree and was dropping fruit down to me. He picked 5 or 6 before he came back down. He peeled them for me and we sit under the tree and ate them. It was great. I think they were oranges, but they didn't look the same as American oranges. They were really good.
So, here I am sitting under a shade tree with a good friend. Just relaxing and enjoying the conversation. I had my IPhone so I got to show him pictures of America. He had many questions. While I was sitting there I thought to myself, "I'll never know why God would give me such an amazing life".
If you don't know this about me already I used to have a very serious drug problem. At one point I overdosed and a doctor told me I would die before I was thirty if I didn't stop using. That was the lowest point of my life. But its amazing to think that at that same moment God was sitting at the foot of my hospital bed saying...... "I'm going to use this one. Im going to lift this girl off of this bed. Clean her up, and  send her to a third world country.This drug addict is going to be teaching orphans in Haiti in less then 2 years."
Wow! If I was Jesus I wouldn't have chosen me. If I was him I wouldn't have even bothered to give me a second glance. I love him because he first loved me.