I write this blog sitting in D’Sabores, a dessert place off
our main boulevard, eating my 1st donut in this country.
Miracles are happening here. A stretch of road down the
street from us got paved, mostly. They did it like we do driveways in the
States- with forms and poured concrete and leveling it off.
One of my hardest students has dramatically improved in the
last months. He is still a small feisty fighter in recess, but in class he
works and pays attention. He and I finally have a good relationship.
My students asked me in English class, when is God’s
birthday? I told them God didn’t have a birthday, and was met with shocked and
incredulous stares. Nearly all 20 little pairs of eyes seemed equally surprised
to hear that God will never die either. We got around to how God hates sin and
can’t let anyone into heaven because of it. I think they got it, because my
worst student, in frustration, despairingly asked me in Spanish if nobody could
go to heaven then? I drew them the shadow of the cross picture again, but this
time they paid much more attention. For miracles like this, I remember why I
wanted to come to Honduras.
The baby is growing, and it’s a miracle. I’m in awe. My
students pat my tummy and say, “Hola bebesito.” They ask lots of questions.
God is answering prayers. In our marriage, in our hearts.
Growing us both. And I’m amazed because I can SEE it.
God is working in the life of our director at school. And he
wants to bring us all along. He says that God wants a revival for ALCS.
Yesterday all of the teachers had a “spiritual retreat,” and he gave us all
material to read about what revival means. It was pages all about repentance,
about the many sins we commit and how we need to confess them and humble ourselves
before God. Afterward we talked for 2 hours and so many teachers confessed
grievances they had held against each other. Asked forgiveness, sought
reconciliation. We were surprised and thankful to find such a biblical idea of
revival in a place so filled with emotionally driven “spiritual” experiences.
God has blessed us in other ways, to many to say.
Surprising, undeserved grace.
“I will praise You forever for what You have done; in Your
name I will hope, for Your name is good. I will praise You in the presence of
Your saints.” –Psalm 52:9
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