Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
There is so much brokenness.
It surrounds the city. I can see it. It is in the boys who live for their next high on paint thinner. In the baby girl who sits in a pile of trash while her mother sifts through the dump looking for things to sell. It is in the thirteen year old boy who has lived over half his life on the street. I see it in a boy who was abandoned in the mountains as a child and is now being taught how to use a spoon for the first time in his life at the age of ten. I see it when I look in the eyes of a girl in a government institution who has no one in the world who wants her.
I have met many of these people. I have talked to them. I have held them. I keep thinking how can I possibly make a difference. What can I do? What do I have that can change anything? Why am I even here?
I am here because for some reason that is beyond my comprehension God wants me here.
He sent me. He chose me. I don’t know why. All I know is that the only hope of lasting change is in Jesus Christ. I don’t understand sometimes the things that happen around me, but I know that God understands brokenness and suffering so much more than I do. All I can do is crawl into His lap and give it to Him.
E squad is here for a reason. What we have to offer to these people is Him. We can give them beauty for ashes. We can let them know that they are created on purpose. Every finger and every toe was a beautiful design. There is a God so in love with them and wants them so desperately.
I am reminded every day when I see these broken faces that the Lord makes beautiful things out of dust. He gives hope to the hopeless, peace to the restless and He is the God of this city.
It's not about what i have, but who i have with me.
Isaiah 61: 1-3
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of prison to those who are bound…To console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes.
