Explaining the Inexplicable

So, yesterday morning, after 33 hours of traveling and about 5 hours of sleep, I went to church very excited to share everything that I had seen and experienced over the last two weeks.  I teach an adult class at church and I knew that they would have questions about the trip.  All of them had been faithfully praying for our trip and many had supported financially so I felt ready to report back.
So as class started something interesting happened, I was lost trying to explain the inexplicable.  I couldn't find the words that most accurately reflected anything more that a series of things that happened there while we were awed by God's work.  I was frustrated that I couldn't convey in words what I had seen with my eyes, what I had felt in my heart, what moved me to tears and strengthened my faith in a very powerful and active God.  I felt like everything I was saying was so pitifully inadequate to really get the meaning across.
I left church feeling very frustrated that I was not going to be able get the point across or to at least adequately explain what we witnessed in that small village.  I prayed last night for the strength and the words to say to convey everything.  I woke up this morning praying the same thing.
God revealed something to me in my time of reflection and prayer this morning.  He eased my mind and let me know that reporting back to you isn't meant to do what I desperately wanted it to do.  That's not the way it's meant to work at all.  My job is to do God's will when He asks me to and then praise His name when I witness first hand His power and mercy.  But, to explain to you in words the movement of God on souls is the attempt to do the impossible.  If it were that easy then everyone would have "experienced" God.  The Bible is the only thing that we have that God has used to give us an accurate explanation of him and His power.

Instead I will praise His name for the blessing I saw Him deliver to people halfway across the world and I will always remember what I saw and experienced there.  I will also long for seeing it and feeling it every day of my life.  Your job is to seek and desire the same thing for your life.  Not that you live it through me or anyone else but that you desire to see it with your eyes, to feel it in your heart, to be moved to tears by an inexplicable feeling of awe while you see His face in the face of the people He has chosen to bless and you take in the overflowing of His blessing while you say "yes, I will go!"
Thank you Lord for the blessing of letting us witness your incredible power and mercy!!!