( written 2 days before leaving Nicaragua… Journal post)
The way I see it, sometimes the most beautiful incredible things you see in life can not be captured in a photo because the photo would not do it justice. Instead it’s engraved in my heart and in my mind. That moment was 2 nights before the squad would say goodbye to the beautiful city of Granada, and it would put month 2 all squad month in the books! This month has offered incredible moments looking back, being on Isle Zapata, ( located in the middle of Lake Nicaragua) working manual labor in fields, digging up roots and planting mango trees, while praying over them, spending the morning in a place that we call House of Ancients (aka a nursing home), watching sunsets in bell towers, worshiping in the park, everyday there was something beautiful to see!
Tonight was a night I will never forget. I was walking up from the kitchen ( drinking my last Dr. Pepper) to my hammock that has become my bed for the last week here. I couldn’t help but look up as I was walking wondering if I could see the stars or if the clouds were covering them up again. The thing is i have always loved looking at the stars, I may know nothing about them but I love them. I looked up and I was in awe of the beauty hat my eyes captured! A sky so clear that thousands of stars and constellations shone down lighting up the whole sky! A few seconds later, calm lightning swept across the sky and a few moments later a shooting star flew across the night! The stars were twinkling like I have never seen before! It was magical.
One of my squad mates pulls out his journal and randomly starts reading facts about the sky! The facts were talking about how big everything really was, and talking about light years. I was grateful for the quick lesson and in that moment I was just reminded how God really loves us, and just how truly powerful and majestic He really is.
As I looked up to the sky, I couldn’t help but think just every star has a purpose for a time, every star radiates light, every star is put in a specific place to make up constellations and stories… We are like the stars. We we created with purpose, with beauty. We radiate a light so bright, so strong, so glorious. We all have a place here. We all have value and worth.
Madeline L’engle wrote: We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all there heart to know the source of it.
Thank you for taking the time to read this! Thank you guys so much for all the support I have been shown throughout this journey. I know this blog is a little late, it’s a little something about month 2. I can’t believe we’re about two weeks from ending month 3 – Honduras on the race and what a month it has been! I am also under $3,000 away from being fully funded, so if God has been putting it on your heart to give so I can continue this journey, hit the support me link.
God Bless
Lindsey Miller
