I heard Kelly yelling about something, so I ran outside, and looked in the direction everyone else was looking. What a fantastic memory, just 10 feet from our tents, two dogs were ´tied´together. I am not sure how much more to say about it, another male was trying to get in on the action. People from our group were appalled, and were asking the guys to do something about it. While mexicans, young and old just walked by as if it were a daily occurrance. Guess what, I bet it is, by looking at the dogs.
I guess it reminds me what a sterile, numb, and easily offended world we live in. Why would this cause such an uproar? How many of us think puppies come from storks? It is like the poverty down here. This is normal life. Pain in everyone´s eyes. Dirt, hunger, loneliness. Babies crying for water. Why are we appalled by dogs humping, but not by children starving?
I guess I wonder about the world I have grown up in. Demon presence down here is tangible and visible, while back home the mention of the devil in a ´christian´school causes complaints by parents. We sit in church and pretend, people are tormented, hungry for God. People come to our churches hungry for God, are given a bulletin and a sermon and leave still hungry. So they say there is no God. If God can´t be found in our church, where do people go?
Is it worth being liked, being politically correct, protecting our tax status or our budget, to avoid the hard truths? Why is it so difficult to take the kingdom? How do we explain before God why we turned away from the hungry, poor, those in spiritual bondage? Are you going to tell God you were ” skeered”? You couldn´t take God at his word? Some day you will. Some day we will stand before God and give an account. Going to church every Sunday won´t cut it. Your fancy house won´t protect you from that trumpet call. Your car that cost more in gas a month than some of these families make in a year won´t out run the death angel.
The good news is today is a new day, Jesus has not returned yet, you can begin today. To live the life God called you to a long time ago. The life God intended for you since the beginning.
I tell you, the last shall be first and the first shall be last. What the #$%& do you think that means? Its your choice.
Sorry about that. I hope I didn´t make you uncomfortable. Ha.
Tonight Linnea and I will share our testimonies to the high school age service, and Shawna will be giving the message. We are having a date, just the two of us, and we left OLGA behind, so I just typed this in the cafe. Everything else seems to be going pretty well. We are adjusting to a new future everyday. We are also learning drimes, which are dramas without words, done to songs. Linnea seems to dislike acting even more than I do, I don´t know how that is possible.
We have church tomorrow night, so we will miss the Pats-Colts.
I will be giving the message on Wed. I have never PREACHED before, so hopefully I can stir something up in this culture, with out putting to an end AIMs presence in Palenque. Just kidding, kindof.
Read chad´s blogs, jeffs blogs, linneas…. this stuff is real.
