I was sitting on a train after a 16 hour ride through Eastern Europe today when I realized it was just last week this time I was flying through the New York airport. It hit me just how much had changed in the week between these two travel days. On my way to New York, I was clean, fed, and having polite conversations with the passengers around me. Flash forward to this train ride- my feet have turned permanently black and shoes feel unnecessary, the dirt is irremovable from my nails, I just ate fruit(after peeling it) from a stranger on the train and made a pb&j from all the ingredients in my backpack, I sleep anywhere for any spare time I’m given, and I brushed my teeth outside a train station then spit into a sewer while people looked at me the way I would look at a homeless person peeing on a sidewalk.
Odd how fast we embrace this lifestyle of nomadism, how wi-fi has new meaning, and a shower is a luxury more than a necessity already. It feels so raw, the way life should be, really, the way almost the whole world has to live.
We have been set up with the most amazing teen camp here in the beautifully arid mountains of Petrich, Bulgaria. We have wonderful accommodations and get to spend time with teens that are really going after the Lord even if they are the only ones in their communities doing so. We have already realized that this place is holy ground, healing is happening- in our group, in me, and in these teens. This will be a powerful beginning to a year I am just now seeing is going to be bigger than I imagined. Praise God!
Videos and pictures to come when we get to our next site and get internet!
