i toured the angkor wat ruins today with my buddy matt. a couple pictures below. some of me, some of him, some of us both…and there are lots more…maybe some will make their way to the internet.
i met this girl outside of the main ruins, the largest temple structure on earth, and she was super persistent the whole walk out to our tuk-tuk (a cambodian equivalent of a cab). she kept asking me whether i wanted a bracelet. i kept saying i’m sorry, to which her reply was ”i don’t want sorry, i want a dollar.” but the line she got me to buy her bracelets with was this one…and i know it’s a line, and you can read it all over that guilty, yet innocent smile of hers…but if anyone wants a cheap cambodian bracelet…i have 5…(they were five for a dollar)
in case you missed it, that’s a girl from Cambodia teaching me how to treat a lady…other fellas that read, take notes, too…
for the picture above, matt and i got the sweatiest, but nicest chinese man i’ve ever met to take our picture…
this is the main angkor wat ruins. it’s a shillouette shot…without even trying. not a photoshop trick, yáll, even though after teaching photoshop for a month, i could do that…
this is matt climbing the steepest staircase i’ve ever made my way up. we had the repelling gear in his backpack for the climb down…but the view from the top was amazing. i think we were there almost two hours…
it was weird being around the ruins of these temples. it was overwhelming to me to see how misplaced so much of our worship is. there was a lot of beauty in these temples. there was a lot of similarities we found between them and the way the temple is described throughout the Bible, but i pray my worship is not misplaced…that the things that compete for my worship are revealed to my heart and that as John ended his first letter, that i am able to keep myself from idols…
God is not proud, He will have us, even though we have chosen everything over Him.
-c.s. lewis
