Life has been busy and awesome!! There are two fellow interns here, they are staying until December. The past month has been filled with painting, preparing the three floors of the mission base, starting a tile project, going to the mountain villages, and playing with kids.
When we were in the mountains we did little house church services at people’s homes; we had a time of worship then one of us would share something and we would pray for the people. It was an awesome time. We also played with a lot of little kids and there were plenty of new little babies to be held. Like always, the little kids steel my heart. The mountain villages are my favorite place to be, I love the people and kids up there.
This weekend we have been in the city for a little brake from the heat of Zacpa (where I live most of the time, it is in the desert and is pretty much always hot there). We brought two of the high school students with us from our dorm. They had never been to the city and had never seen more than a three story building. It has been such a cool experience to watch them see things for the first time. They had never had donuts before so we sugared them up with donuts and Starbucks. It was so fun seeing their facial expressions when they were biting in to donuts for the first time in their life.
I came to Guatemala because I was sick of living the way I was. I wanted God to become my center, my all, my everything. I wanted to get to know God; I mean to really know Him. I wanted to know his heart. I wanted to experience His love in such a deep and powerful way that I could never turn form Him ever again because He would completely consume me. Walking down this strait and narrow path with Christ has been the hardest and best thing I have ever done in my life. Walking hand in hand with Christ; asking to be brave and stripped of everything that does not please and glorify Him. Asking him to strip me of my pride and selfish heart has not been full of flowers and beautiful fields of green grass; no it has been the hardest yet most beautiful thing.
The beginning of my time here I was by myself for two mouths, that is where my path to a broken life started; completely surrendered to God, living for His eyes only. At the time I had no idea what would happen to me, and through every storm I had no idea that it would lead me to a life of full contentment in Christ. All I knew was I was tired of living on the lien with God and wanted to be completely consumed by His love or have nothing of Him at all. The last four months of my life have been spent being made new by Christ, letting go of the life I defined myself by and letting God have every part of my life and heart. Walking down a path of being broken was lonely at times and painful. God showed me that I was wrong in thinking that I had to live the "American Dream" full of prosperity, lots of stuff, being successful and knowing where you are going with your life. I found that the "American Dream" is just a lie we all buy into, it is a distraction to keep us form true life.
