Wow this last couple weeks have been a rollercoaster of emotions. I also have been sick to make things better. The holidays have a way of making it hard to be away from family. Lets start with how the ministry is going! We have been here in the jungle a little over 1 week. It is tough to live here with all of the weird creatures. We are in a little village called Rio Tambo about 22 hours outside of lima in the amazon jungle. The best thing about this place in my book is the small community that has its own enforcement and has its own regulations and community standards. It is such a beautiful place filled with many giant spiders, ants, and a lot of big moths and beautiful butterflies. This place has a pretty big river that is just outside the main portion of the village. They fish, swim, and use it as a means to get to other villages. The river is filled with so much danger like the pink dolphins, piranhas, and a multitude of different fish that have more teeth than I want to be bit by.
This jungle has given me quit a few challenges in my faith. Like the challenge of being sick in a place of high temperature and intense humidity to each day having to fight off the annoying bugs constantly trying to bite you and my favorite is getting bit 3 times in the nose by something?
The beauty of this jungle comes from the obstacles that have presented them selves to our flesh. No one likes to have bugs in there face all day and I’m pretty convinced that the humidity is about 60% with temp at about 89 degrees. The native people here have such a beautiful outlook on life I have never heard a complaint! The children here have such knowledge beyond the comprehension of teaching in the States. The prayers the children have is for others and for the people that are exploited for there jobs to find shelter in our father God! This comes from a group of 8-year-old girls.
I don’t know about you but this world has so much more than what we think! while we live comfortably in our safe guarded homes people have a life filled with things, we would constantly complain about but for some reason the people that have the hard life don’t seem to think its so hard. This concept of living without worry strikes my imagination in ways that open up the door to who truly are we intended to be here on earth? This little time in the jungle I have seen many things that have rocked my spiritual boat. The home we stay in is an orphanage with 3 ladies running it. Keven is one of the orphans that has no parents and he is such a reserved kid at first but he has been warming up to us. Oh also he is 12 years old and helps out a ton with the house. The other orphan is Samuel he is 4 mouths old and is the sweetest baby boy. We are all sleeping in tents out front of the orphanage which has been a blast, so peaceful to wake up to water droplets on the roof of the tent and to look outside to only be blown away by Gods beauty.
It is really been heavy on my heart that two and a half years ago is when I truly started to live. It is so amazing what has happened in my heart since that day our father God brought me to the end of myself. Writing this blog today in the middle of the amazon jungle is truly works that only God could orchestrate. I am so blown away at the true power that our submission to God in our life brings, the wholeness, the joy, the pure love for this life and the love for others.
I truly am blessed beyond measure and I would not change a thing about my broken life for it is the foundation on witch God has start to build.
also I will have a vlog coming out on YouTube soon so be looking for that
it holds a lot more footage of what the jungle has been like.
