Honesty. I want to start by apologizing for not doing a better job of including all of you, my loving supporters, in what has been happening here. I have been suffering in some serious verbal drought. Not because nothing has been happening here, mostly because I wasn´t sure how I had been affected. And it´s not my favorite thing to share this with you, O faithful supporters, but as month three is underway, I still feel like I am waiting for this trip to start.
We spent five weeks in Chincha, peru and I never really knew what my ministry was. I know that the one huge thing that did happen for me was that I personally grew in God´s call on my life to be a prayer warrior and, in that, my ministry was to my team.
We just finished up 2 weeks in the Amazon jungle of Nauta, Peru where I really felt God telling me it was time to show up. I think the biggest thing I have discovered so far is that it is REALLY easy not to do ministry if you don’t want to. The desire to serve others must involve one´s heart but it is just as easy to choose to involved the heart as it is to choose not to.
(Talk about a picture window! This is a room in Iquitos where 8 girls sleep. And no, there isn´t any glass in that window.)
So, back to showing up. The day after I decided that I would go to everything
(i.e. every event, every church service since there were like 5 a week, etc) and seek God… I got sick. There is no doubt in my mind that God does not make us sick, but I also have no doubt that God can use sickness. For me, this time being sick meant that I had a choice to make. (See Honesty 2: A Matter of Heart)
Sunset on the Amazon River
