I’ve loved spending the last few weeks here in Quiche, Guatemala. It’s beautiful- the people, the countryside, the old buildings, and even the dirty roads. It’s a town full of character and I’m going to miss it dearly. As I have mentioned in the previous blog, my team is working at the hospital across from where we are staying for the month. We’ve been working with the maintenance guys there helping with sanding, painting, and even sneaking in the women’s ward every once in a while to go visit the little babies.
This month hasn’t been the easiest for me. God’s been pointing out some things that I need to work on. I find myself struggling a lot with comparing myself to other people. I always see things in other people that I want and put myself down when I realize that I’m not as gifted in that area as them. I notice I do it a lot with my twin. My sister is so talented in so many ways. She’s beautiful, athletic, and very smart. It’s natural for people to try to find differences in us in order to tell us apart since we are identical, but sometimes I take things too personally when someone says one is skinnier or better at something than the other. I shouldn’t let that bother me. God made us different and He has given me gifts that she doesn’t have. I didn’t really notice how much I compared us until I noticed that I didn’t just compare myself to my twin but to other people as well. The more I compared the more jealous I became of other people’s talents and abilities. This past week I’ve been focusing on the gifts God has blessed me with. He made us all different with our own gifts and it’s a beautiful thing. I’ve been reading about spiritual gifts this past week and a few verses stuck out to me. I’ll leave you with this:
1 Corinthians 12: 14-20 (NIV)
“ Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as He wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.”
