The house is 98% finished! It looks amazing and Martha’s smile was even bigger today. She asked for green so green it is! Avocado Crema looking to be exact. It made us painters pretty hungry for lunch while we were working this morning.
The VBS today was INCREDIBLE!!! Frank did such an amazing job translating our bible story of Johana and the whale. The kids LOVED the story, the whale game we gave them, and the snacks. (Of course the snacks lol) When we told them that we may not be back at the community center tomorrow so many of them were upset and on the verge of tears. My little buddy Alan ran up to hug me and with eyes filled with water he did not want to let go! It’s going to be hard to say goodbye when we leave the community. The connections to people we have made here are much deeper than I was expecting to see. As we left the community today there was a rainbow shining down. It was a great end to the house building!
The house is the magnet that brings us here, but not the purpose. We need to focus on the purpose not the project. These were John’s words this morning that stuck in my heart, and as soon as we got to the job site I began to understand. As we all stood around the house waiting to see where to fall into place for the day, Kirsten and I noticed that the neighbor was in need of some help. As we build the home next door, he began to clean up. There is a lot of trash here, and we saw the job he had ahead of him. So we jumped in to help and his face lit up!
We did a cultivate community event in Monroe before we left as a team building experience, and here we are in Honduras, doing the same event. Cleaning, helping, building, and loving our neighbors! Helping him take care of his home was the best gift we could have given him. In Honduras, the people don’t have much, but the things they do have are beyond valuable to them.
Love this post. Wherever we are, our true purpose is loving God and loving our neighbors. So simple, and yet so difficult sometimes to actually put into practice.
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