Tonight is the last night I'll be spending here in Santa Cruz Del Quiche. It's odd to say that I only have 10 more months left on the race. Oh how time flies.
This morning in the absence of our three wonderful squad leaders, Carly, Seth, and KK, the entire squad still got together and worshipped. In the midst of sincere praises and prayers among L squad members, the strumming of the guitar (Johnny) and the worship leader (Nate) faciliated something ethereal. It took me back to that fateful July morning at Training Camp. It's the same worshipful atmosphere, the same faces around me, we're worshipping the same true God, but something is clearly different. I look down at my feet and tears began to stream down my face.
It's me. I'm different.
I am now healed, able to stand and walk again. I ditched my crutches over a week ago and as I pack up to leave this place I will not take them with me but instead be donating them to the Hospital Santa Elena, the hospital across the street from where we lived, where we frequented this month to visit the babies with malnutrition and other patients. 'Crutches are hard to come by here' we were told by Dr. Street, Director of Agape in Action 'and they would definitely be useful'. It warms my heart to know someone else will be using those crutches to get better, and it warms my heart even more to know that I will never have to go back to using them. My once broken ankle is now in one piece, my fibula and tibia bones have grown whole again. God's healing is upon me so I stood up in front of everyone today declaring myself healed.
L Squad, thank you for walking with me intimately in the last two months and not letting me go, from the moment I fell to this time of healing. You have carried me, waited on me, prayed for me, served me, helped me climb to the top of a mountain in the dark, preferred me over yourselves, and allowed me to heal my wounds in a safe community. I can't think of a better way to heal than to do it in the first month of the race with my entire squad in the mountainous and beauteous Guatemala. We are truly blessed to be given this opportunity to have been together as one squad for one whole month- seeing how God means for us to live together as the church- vulnerable in relationship with each other and authentic in relationship with God!
God thank you for how amazing you are and for healing me just in time to play with kids I've yet to meet at this orphanage and assist at a women's shelter for the month of October in Honduras at Open Doors Ministries, and showing me what true love looks like in the midst of my brokeness.
The days of wearing two shoes and running down the streets are not too far away!
Please continue to pray for 100% recuperation of my ankle and for our squad debrief in Antigua (Oct 1st to 5th). After that my team and I are off to Tocoa, Honduras to spend Month 2 of the World Race. Stay tuned.
L Squadmates and I the day after I broke my ankle at Training Camp in Georgia. July 2012.
L Squad teamleaders retreat at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. I am without crutches. September 2012.
