So imagine this for a moment: you are asleep in your bed, having wonderful dreams. And then around 1:30am you wake up to the sound that's the equivalent of hail hitting your car in the winter (something I don't have a lot of experience with but work with me). But of course, after a second your brain realizes it's the rainy season in Belize and considering your house has a tin roof, rain is hitting basically a giant speaker system. Then it hits you.. "Whoa! Next Thursday I will be getting ready to board a plane to go home!!" Which gets you thinking about everything you have experienced the past six months and things you hope to experience when you get home and the next thing you know it's 4am and you haven't really done much sleeping. The whole point of that story is me saying that I GET TO BE HOME IN A WEEK!! And again, not that I don't love Belize, I just really miss America.
But before I get carried away, here is a little bit of what has been going on. Last Thursday, I got to go back to 7 Miles because one of my host sisters was graduating primary school! It took our siblings a bit to warm back up to us but it didn't take long for us to pick right back up where we left off. Our 7 Miles parents were super excited to have us back. They even begged us to stay the night with them but considering it's an hour car ride to get back to Santa Elena and there is no phone reception, we had to say no and return home. It was hard leaving them the first time when we knew we were
going to be coming back but it was really hard to leave them that time. We left with the hope that maybe one day God will give us an opportunity to return to this family that loved us like one of their own.
This week has been one full of projects to keep ourselves busy while we prepare for returning home. There is a week long team in a city not too far from where we are so a few of us have gone every day to help out with their project. It is a fine line between being helpful and being invasive. One of their leaders asked us to give their group a summary of what our trip is about which is nice sometimes to be reminded that yeah, what we are doing is pretty cool! It can be easy to (in a weird way) take this trip for granted because it is our life for the moment. But it is actually pretty awesome.
Yesterday we went to this place called "A Painted Conversation". This lady had this vision to create a mural that represents this area and get people of the community involved in making something beautiful. I'm not exactly sure how she put it together but basically, she created this image on the computer that she traces block by block onto these very large painting papers and creates like a paint by number. Then groups or individuals can come in and paint part of it and when it is finished, it will be a big, beautiful masterpiece inspired and put together by members of this community. It was really cool just listening to her vision of the mural and explaining everything she feels like it represents. Plus, I find paint by numbers very relaxing and they require no actual talent so it was right up my ally!
Since this is my last blog post before I return home, I would like to end it with something for you to contemplate. And not just in a "hmm... interesting" way but in a "whoa! Maybe I should really think/ pray about that" kind of way. So the other day, we were downtown and we saw someone had grafittied "Be dangerous. It's safe out there." Which at first just seems kind of funny because normally you would switch the words "safe" and "dangerous" but then I got thinking about how
different life would be if we lived like that. Not just like in a way where we would maybe go on more adventures but what if you lived your spiritual life dangerously? It's so easy to live our lives in a spiritual safety zone with our safe churches. And safe friends. But what would happen if you let God lead you out of that safety net? I don't want to really give examples of that because I don't want to limit your ideas but think about it. What would happen if you decided to live dangerously for Christ? Yeah, it's kind of a scary thought but God breathed galaxies into exhistance! He can do some pretty cool stuff! Why not be a part of it? Who knows, you might get to do something cool like live for a while in some cool foreign places ;)
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