Maybe a dance or painting or poem or music might stand a chance at speaking the beauty of the souls here but words certainly cannot. I have fallen deeply in live with Guatemala and I want more than anything to bring pieces of it home with me. I don't mean souvenirs or fashion items, but an attitude. Relationships with God and with people stand as the most important things here and the people here pour their love and time into eachother. People will stop to ask you how you are and they mean it. Problems like having a hard time being loved in a normal way become obvious because they are put to the test. Here nobody is worried about getting out of church at 12:15 sharp because they have more important things to do...instead they linger just to love on eachother. Thats what I want to bring to my home, my church family. That's where Jesus is. God is love and somehow that slips away from us and we forget what that means, we forget what God intented love to look like in our lives. I am so incredibly blessed by my church and my family and that's where I want my focus to be. 1 John had changed my heart.
We have been visiting the homes of families whose children are sponsored by si and although we bring them baskets with basic food items, they give us their stories, their hearts, their lives and it's so much more than I could ever give. I work in the schools everyday with children who have nothing in their bellies but still have hearts of love and joy and sometimes it just blows me out of the water.
In love,
allie
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