6 days later we drove back to the airport, it still seemed like a dream.
"We really did it. It's all happened so fast. God you are amazing."
The week was stretching, tiring, frustrating, heartbreaking, exhausting, exciting, adventurous, breathtaking, exhilarating, inspirational, and many other indescribable words.
You look and think the community is heavily stricken with poverty, but at a closer look, they are wealthier than most Americans will ever know. We served two families and improved their homes with concrete floors, walls, and a new tin roof. We played and shared Christ with the local kids during a VBS. And you ask yourself, Who's ministering to who?
During our evening debriefing Josh, the Experience Mission staff, made a statement.
He said, "We tend to judge people based on their circumstances."
How true is that? At first glance the Hondurans are poor by OUR standards, but after some time you realize that they appreciate what they have more than we do. While we are looking for the NEXT BIG THING, they are still enjoying the MAIN THINGS - time and each other.
Josh also reminded us that no matter our economic status - how rich or how poor someone may be, we all have one thing in common.
The Lord created us both ~ Proverbs 22:2
(more pictures and video to come)
3 comments:
awesome!!! Sounds like a great trip. Glad you made it back safely.
Thanks for sharing your experiences in Honduras. It sounds like it was a spiritually eye-opening trip. Hopefully, my wife and I can take a trip like that some day. God bless you for your efforts to make the world a better place for God's children.
Steven, you are right man. The average traveler passing through would have only seen the clay tile roofs and chicken fence clothes line. They see the circumstance. We got to see beyond that. I saw the "very wealthy" senator, and he had nothing. It was by circumstance, the poorest man who was the richest. He had a close family, and was being blessed by others while blessing others with more than what they asked. Again, it was a family of seven, considered poor by circumstance, that was the richest. A 12 year old boy's smile that could change the world by just trying to show how "fuerte" (strong) he was, picking up rocks half his size. I too, see myself as rich, not because I am a gringo who supposedly has everything, but because I have the greatest person in the universe in my life-- Jesus Christ.
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