Greeeeeetings yall!!
So I guess il give a quick description of the average day here in La Cama , Guatamala. In the morning we wake up, usually able to see our breath its so cold, ha! And we have our individual time with the King. Then we eat some breakfast such as beans, rice cereal, boiled egg with some red catsup sauce. Then we head off to work at the church we are constructing. We have been mixing cement, digging holes, making re’bar stuff, and pouring the cement all by hand and shovel. I have the toughest hands a woman should ever have now, got calluses where I never thought possible. Anyways the labor is hard but I love it so much and wouldn’t trade it. Usually somewhere around 10 or so we have a church woman bring a snack then back to work till 12 and we break for lunch back at our house. After lunch we drag our roasted bodies back up to the church site and work till about 4 and then we have the rest of the night. Sometimes we go play the guats in soccer… we have played them 3 times and the results are for game one USA 7 GUAT 1 and game two was like USA 13 and GUAT 5 and next game we don’t really like to talk about cause I guess word got out that the white folk are taking over the soccer field and the last game we played I think there were some Olympians or something. We stuck it out and held it close. Anyhow usually whatever we do we draw a nice crowd of children. Most of them are scared of us so they try and stay a good distance away. But we actually showed a movie on the wall of our house last night and got several of the village kids and neighbors to join us! I believe it was the first time most of them have seen a movie! Welp we found out yesterday that my team will be doing slums ministry in Costa Rica next month!!! What a surprise that was! Ha I believe we are taking a bus all the way there something like 40 hours hahaha what humor God has. But please continue to pray for our village and healing and restoration of the people.
So every night each team has whats called feedback. Which is exactly what it is, we sit down talk about our days talk about things we could have done differently or more effectively. And this week during feedback we shared what we have concluded about our identity in Christ. And I feel the Lord asking me to share a bit of what I have discovered about myself through Jesus. I wrote this… Isaiah 58.12 And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt, you shall raise up the foundations of many generations, you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in. == and this to me says God is going to use the things I have been through the situations I have been in and seen to rescue a whole generation. It seems to me that the longer I live the more I realize how the world is starting to accept sin. We have come up with good excuses to cover up the wrong we do. This is not Kingdom living. I will spend my lifetime devoted to bringing Kingdom living back. There have been foundations built upon worldly pleasures, we have spent our time and efforts desiring material things that will be worth nothing in the end. These foundations will crumble. I have a heart to restore them when they do. A favorite verse of mine is where thy heart is there thy treasure will be also. Where is my time being spent, what do my thoughts and dreams belong to… that is my treasure and that is where my heart is too. I have been given a thirst to feed the starving, I have been given a thirst to show the lost the only road to hope, I have been given a thirst to see greed to into poverty, I have been given a thirst to see people live out a Christian life.. not to only to proclaim Him but to know him and for him to know us, I have been given a thirst to fight with my heart for the slaved to be set free. In Christ I have been set free, I am free from any sin I have ever committed, I don’t carry that baggage because my Jesus paid it all, he bore that weight so I don’t have to, I can fight any battle knowing in the end my team wins. Christ always wins, I know the end of the book, I know the last words of the story… Christ comes back and takes with him his followers. I have not been given a timid voice.
I am strength because Jesus is strong
I am poor because he is my riches
I am powerful because Christ is dwelling within me
I am alive because he rescued me
I will rise above this world because I have lived in it too long and I know it has nothing to offer me.
I am the Billabong Dagger, an oasis in the desert and a warrior for the Kingdom.
So that’s a bit of my heart, those are the things God has whispered to me over the past few weeks. I am learning to hear his voice and respond. That has been a prayer of mine for a long time and it will continue to be a prayer. I am learning to sit and listen, im learning that I can be in process.. I wont always get what I ask for immediately. Sometimes it takes some breakage before restoration. Im learning new things about my teammates and how they see Christ, how they worship, how they love and it is allowing me to open up my ways.
I love and miss yall very much, though I would not change a thing about the life I am living I do miss you all. Thank you for yer prayers so much. Keep them coming! Check out Tim´s blog and for that matter all my teammates. He has a video post.
LOVE
