Now, let me just set the scene. First of all Antigua is such a remarkable place: Paris meets volcanoes. Everywhere you look there are hippies, beautiful Brazilian men and women, European tourists and locals from Guatemala. The architecture is mainly white stucco walls with these large dark mahogany wood doors and wrought iron banisters covered with flowers and vines. If you look in the doors you will see beautiful courtyards hidden by the bustling street. Josh and I even ate lunch at an organic herb garden.
So there we were on the streets of Antigua praying for a homeless woman. The woman was probably in her late 60s and was kneeling on the street with her frail legs folded underneath her as her hand rested on her head holding a blue bowl to collect money. Ali found out that her body ailed with pain and asked her if we could pray for her. So we knelt beside her in love and laid our hands on her asking God for His healing to come and that she would know the love of her heavenly Father. We were living out the verses, “but what I do have I give to you” (Acts 3:1-10) 
What made this so interesting was that Josh not wanting to touch the woman for fear of crossing cultural boundaries stood their praying behind us. He was able to watch the passers by and their responses to us. People were walking toward us from all directions and as they saw us began to make faces of disgust and uncertainty. They looked at us with the question, “What are these strange white people doing on the ground and why are they touching this homeless woman?” Some people even stopped completely in their tracks pointing to us in bewilderment. People were offended and in awe that we would care about a “nobody” in their eyes. But, I hope that it spoke volumes to them about how this woman is “someone” and not only is she “someone” but she is a precious daughter of the King.
So I challenge you to offend people with the Love of Christ and make someone stop in their tracks and question what the heck you are doing.
