Honduras...

"The nature of the work in Honduras throughout the summer is pretty intense. We wake up each day and go to work (building homes, distributing food and clothing, conducting VBS, meeting basic needs) among some of the poorest people on the face of this planet. The needs are obvious and apparent and it is easy to see what to do. Back here in "over the mountain" AL, we live in the suburbs and our daily interactions and the environment we are in makes it less easy to see what to do. The needs of those around us is less obvious. Are there still needs and things to "do"? Absolutely. It just takes a keener awareness and more attention to discover some of what those are. I'm pretty confident that God has each of us exactly where he can use us. Are we open to letting him use us where we are? Are we ok with that use being less grandiose or intensive or obvious? Are we ok letting God decided the who, what, where, and when of our journey? Does our own guilt drive us to feel like we need to do more or something other than what we are doing?"
-Mark Connell Studio310
I couldn't have put it any better. We've been back from Honduras for six weeks now. It's long enough to start to slip back into old routines, but close enough that the experience is still very fresh on my heart. I printed out this post when Mark first wrote it and recently came back across it. It still rings true. Even after going on 13 trips to Honduras, God continues to use a love for those people and that country to speak to this heart. And I so want to sit quietly and listen...