In Bolivia we spent our last adventure day in the Salt Flats. I was expecting it to be really exciting at first then the rest of the day somewhat boring because, well, we would be looking at salt. That is not what it was at all, little did I know that the Lord would also like adventures because He totally showed up. When we got to the flats my first thought was, “Wow, it looks like snow. The Lord washes us cleaner than this.” As the day continued I kept being blown away at what I was seeing, I kind of didn’t understand it though. I’m from a dry desert so anytime I see something green or colorful I see the beauty of the Lord but I was only seeing blue sky and white ground. I was seeing beauty in 2 colors. As we were driving across the flats the size of it started to enter my mind, it was HUGE! I thought,”We’ll never run out of salt on earth, its all here and then you can get sea salt too.” Then another thought, “God calls us to be the salt of the earth. We are everywhere and we give flavor and help to preserve, we are the ingredient to all things.” Come on Jesus! But the day keeps going on, I thought about our tour guide and wondered if he still looked at the flats the same way as the first time he saw them. I took a look at myself and asked, “Do you still get blown away with the words God speaks to you, because you talk every day?” “Do I still live my life as if Im seeing everything for the first time?” “Are you getting use to a life in missions, or do you still look at life the way you did when you saw the Pentagon for the first time.” (Heres the back story to that question, while in my DTS at YWAM I flew out to Washington DC with my best friend Ashley. It was like my 3rd time out of Texas and at that point the furthest I had ever traveled. When we got there I was amazed by how big the city was, how much greenery there was and when we passed the Pentagon I was level 10 excited! I couldn’t believe that I was seeing somethingI had only seen in movies in real life. I kept saying, “I feel like I’m in a movie, I feel like I’m in a movie!”) So back to what I was asking myself, “Do you still get blown away with the words God speaks to you even though y’all talk everyday?” “Do I still live my life as if Im seeing everything for the first time?” “Are you getting use to a life in missions, or do you still look at life the way you did when you saw the Pentagon for the first time.” These are very deep questions to ask yourself as your crammed like sardines in a car and cant get alone to talk to the Lord about them. Because of those questions I was ready to be done with the Salt Flats and go spend some time alone but we still had more planned for the day. We told our guide we wanted to go to the parts of the flats where there was water to reflect the sky. So now that we were on one side of the flats we needed to drive to the complete other side to see the reflection. Great, more time with people when I want to be alone with the Lord! Race probs lol. But when we got there I was blown away with what I was seeing. I thought, “This had to be a part of the garden of Eden. At the beginning of creation this had to be what it looked like, I can’t tell where the earth ends and the sky begins, it’s a perfect reflection. It’s a perfect reflection of Him.” I asked God, how do I process this?” and He replied, “This is where heaven meets earth and I meet you.” My first though was God met Abraham on top of the mountain and thats where He built an altar. At the beginning of the race I felt as if the Lord asked me where my altars were and what kind of altars I wanted to build in the future. I had built a few in the countries before but this altar is the one I want to talk about today. I spoke back to God and said, “God I want to build you an altar here.”I stood in awe and started admiring and worshiping all of his creation, I looked in every direction and saw his beauty but not just the Salt Flats but the people I wanted to run away from to be alone with the Lord, my teammates. Jen, Alli, Tori, Jaclyn, Rashelle and Taylor are beautiful. They are a part of Gods creation on this beautiful earth. God met me with in a crowd of people and showed me more of His beauty in it.
Jen has a heart for all of Gods children, young and old. Alli is so humbly wise. Tori has a adventurous soul that carries into her relationship with the Lord. Jaclyn is a gentle warrior of the Lord. Rashelle has an anointing on her for teaching children the word of the Lord. Taylor brings joy in every room she walks in. Theres beauty everywhere, I just wasn’t looking.
