Everywhere You Look, Everywhere You Go

"Everywhere you look, everywhere you go

There's a heart, (There's a heart),

a hand to hold on to

Everywhere you look, everywhere you go

There's a face,

of somebody who needs you,

Everywhere you look . . ."

Somehow, between Chicago and Los Angeles, the theme song to Full House became our theme song. It was a joke, mainly, at first. Our theme song actually started out as "We're all in this together" from High School Musical, but the songs kind of sound alike, and it became an inside joke to sing, "We're all in this together . . . there's a heart!" 

As much of an inside joke as it became between the seven of us, now that we're back home, I've been thinking about it a lot. The middle of the song actually feels so relatable to the experiences that we had in Los Angeles. 

Everywhere we turned, there was a face- someone new to meet, someone who needed a smile, someone who might turn out to bless us more than we bless them. One of our very first activities in LA was to go on a 'city search', to talk to people about certain topics and find certain places. There was also another big part to this adventure- as a small group we were going to take someone out to lunch. We only had $4 each, so that was challenge enough. However, this task was way outside of my comfort zone. Like, way outside of it. 

But that's part of a mission trip, isn't it? Part of how God changes our hearts. 

And thank goodness that this task was assigned to us, because my group met a beautiful woman named Margo. We had lunch at The #1 Taco House, and surprisingly, it was Margo who called out to us. In a similar occasion, our group, plus our hosts from the Center for Student Missions, was stopped by a man named Artist who wanted to draw one of us. 

It's funny how we can get so caught up in having to be outgoing or brave enough to go after someone and minister them. Our two instances with Artist and Margo were the complete opposite. I felt caught off-guard that someone had called out to me. I'm the one who's supposed to be evangelizing, I thought. Even if that's true, there are things that God still has to show us, and ways He wants to change us. 

We don't have to be brave enough to approach someone all the time. Sometimes we just need to be open enough to be approached by someone else.