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How I operate

February 20, 2013
Adventures
Reflection

I can still hear the child screaming. We were in the children's hospital prayer walking over the building and for the staff. We had one more area to pray over. As we were standing there, there was a child down the hall screaming in agonizing pain. I had never heard anything like it. The screaming continued, the child barely took time to take a breath. The more I listened, the more my heart broke, the more this sound pierced my ears. I felt like I could almost feel the child's pain. This drove me insane. My emotions were high. I asked God, "Why is this happening? Why does this...

Life over here

February 20, 2013
Adventures
Awesome

Life in America taught me to be self sufficient. It taught me that we are what we do so we better be doing something pretty great with our lives We better be writing ourselves a pretty great story to live out and to tell. But life here in Guatemala, with God and my lovely team, is teaching me something completely different. For so long I have taken it upon myself to be the grower of my own spiritual fruit, the keeper of all my emotions, and the controller of how I am presenting myself to others and how they receive me. But God told me to abide in him. He directed me to John 15...

Made in His Image

February 20, 2013
Adventures
Awesome

As the weeks go by I am continually being immersed and challenged by new situations, concepts, and beliefs. God is challenging me everyday to live outside my comfort zone and walk with in His boldness and authority. By abiding in Christ, I can rest in the promise that He is leading me to peaceful streams in midst of battle. God has been teaching me about loving people purely, without attaching any labels to them. And that started at the garbage dump. These families live on the edge of the garbage pile, sleeping and cooking under scraps of wood, plastic, and tarps. In tattered clothes these...

Ignorant Consumption vs Keen Reception: How Glitter Came To Spell ‘City Dump’ For Me.

February 14, 2013
Adventures
On the Field

I am looking down at the glitter speckling my arms, however, I don’t know that I really want to wash the flashing spots off. The sight brings up images of dear children who let their emotions flow free; who have a deep, raw love for anyone who gives them the time of day. This annoyingly adhered glitter reflects memories of a mother and father sorting garbage as a means to an end. This is the Puerto Barrios Dump. Outside the sister towns of Puerto Barrios and Santo Tomas is the dump that serves the surrounding area. Of course, this is a fact of life...

We have Friends in Low Places

February 14, 2013
Adventures
Reminders

Today, I truly felt the Father's heart being my only substance. I have always had problems showing emotions or truly feeling anything. It comes from a long time of suppressing and thinking that emotions and God are not what should fuel my tie to my Creator. But, that's the thing, God has created emotions for His glory. Be praying that I am continuously vulnerable to the Holy Spirit and not just open to what He does. But, back to my story: There is a lot of children at this dump that we do ministry at, and a special muchacho named "Igner" or "Egner" (his nickname...

“I have set my love on you”

February 11, 2013
Adventures
Reflection

"Therefore, behold I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her." Hosea 2:14 Listening seems to be the more passive part of a conversation when in actuality it takes much more effort to listen than to speak. Furthermore, it is essential to actually having a conversation. Yet for some reason when praying I often think I'm conversing with my Lord when in actuality I don't pause to listen to what He has to say. I make my requests and give him my burdens then go on my merry way. Last week the team went out on a prayer walk...

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