August 20, 2012
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[Adventures 2012]: “Here”
[There is a camp in Ecuador where you]:- never know if you will have running water
- drink out of tin cups
- cover yourself in bug spray the moment the sun goes down
-love on dark-chocolate-eyed kiddos from morning till night
-find sand e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e. no matter how much you clean off
- hang your clothes to dry on a clothes line
- learn the art of applying and reapplying sunscreen all day long
- are summoned for meals with a rather annoying but somehow still endearing horn
- make memories out of everything
- are greeted in the morning and evening by a singing gecko in your room.
- see Jesus’s strength made perfect in your weakness.
This is written on one of the walls of one of the cabins at camp.
Every time I walked passed this wall [countless times a day] I would smile.Who wouldn’t?
I miss it. I miss the joy of being in South America.
But it reminds me that Jesus is joy… so joy is here.
Here in America. Here… wherever “here” is at.
