God makes beautiful things out of dust.
This is a phrase I have to keep reminding myself of while working in the dessert. This place is dry and desolate. Many days we wake up with no water in the pipes. Even after being as conservative as possible with the water supply we run out. (Yes, this means if it’s yellow let it mellow.) Showers happen once or twice a week, and laundry… don’t ask. I say this just to show a point. We may be abandoning our first world mindsets to deal with these “hardships” we are still far more fortunate than the others in the community we live in.
But this dessert is not just dry physically. Spiritually as well the people are far beyond parched. You can feel the heaviness walking around the dirt roads covered with trash and dead animals. After the first week it was obvious own team felt the spiritual warfare going on around us. But after leaving town for the weekend and returning we realized just how heavy we were feeling. Most important we returned with awareness and were ready to put on our armor and make a change.
For me, I remember the song Beautiful Things by Gungor and had a thought. What if I was sent here to stir up the dust for God to make something beautiful. and then I saw it…
I began to see the beauty in the people, not the surroundings. I saw the beauty in the ministry, teaching children about their Heavenly Father and watering their spirit.
“Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.’ ” John 6:35
Oh. And we were in the community of Milagros, which translates to The Miracle.
Fundraising update: $300 will have me caught up to my squad!
Thank you TJ Candee for being my model
