I was going to double post my blogspot and this blog but I can´t seem to find the paste button here… So please feel free to check out my blog
www.joymariem.blogspot.com
God has blessed us immensely. We had a very smooth trip to Guatemala and even came in 2nd place for the preliminary leg of the race. Unfortunately that wasn´t the end and we were 4th… which is last. Perhaps we´ll do better next time!!!
Everyday I wake up so grateful to God that this is my life. Can I just say it again? I love missions. I was created to be a missionary. Every prayer, every yearning, every desire of my heart drives me to this end. God is so good to gift us so uniquely for our callings! I would have never thought that this vagabond existence would suit me… but it does, so perfectly – so divinely.
Soy contento. Is that right? What I mean to say is, I´m content.
The Lord has done great things for me, and I am filled with joy.
Our time in Mexico was fruitful… many seeds planted, many little relationships built. I liked our days, just playing with the children, doing our best in light of the crippling language barrier and lack of translator. I am going to have to learn the painful art of saying goodbye. It was hard to say goodbye. To not say, hasta luego, because there may be no later. And yet God, in his amazing sovereignty, has knit us as a body of believers together so intimately, that there is always a “luego” to be had… even if it is delayed until heaven! I don´t need God to show me his strong arm… sometimes his gentle hand is quite enough. And we felt his gentle hand blessing us and our precious children in Mexico.
“What matters is not that we do all we might have done, or all we dreamed of doing, but that, while we live, we live by faith in future grace and walk in the path of love. The times are in God´s hands, not ours.”
John Piper
