Most of you know that Keli and I joined a team from our church on a mission trip to Guatemala earlier this year. We went to help build a home and to do a wheelchair distribution in Huehuetenango. It was an amazing trip and I highly suggest that EVERYONE does something like this at least once. To see, touch, and smell poverty; to talk to, and care for somebody that is among the most impoverished people in the world; and to play soccer with, give clothes to, and show love towards the poor has opened my eyes to what I have ignored in my life for so long.
But it's so easy, so very easy, to forget and go right back to living a life of comfort, plenty, and (to be honest) gluttony. It's been less than 6 months since we got back from the trip, and I'm already so focused on me and my desires that I rarely even remember the people that tore my heart wide open such a short time ago.
But God, yes God, has a way of tapping us on the shoulder and reminding us of what we have turned our backs on. All we need do is turn around.
He did that to me today when I was catching up on a few Blogs that I follow. This video shows Dick Rutgers (whom we spent a lot of time with on our trip) and the work he (and a many other) is doing in Guatemala. So as I'm looking at Newegg trying to decide on a few purchases I'd like to make, I was confronted by this video. I think God loves irony.
Now excuse me while I try to dry my eyes before my coworkers see me.
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