nitty gritty

Sundown over the Guatemala City Dump, 2nd largest landfill in the world.

I remember getting disappointed when I was a kid after watching a favorite show and at the end of the episode, in little yellow letters at the bottom of the screen, “to be continued…”  The TV people didn’t seem to take into consideration that a 10 year old boy with ADD couldn’t possibly wait 7 days (or heaven forbid, an entire summer) to find out if Steve Austin, AKA - The Six Million Dollar Man - would be able to defeat the robotic Sasquatch!  Then I met Jesus and He kept telling me to, “wait for it.”

I am terrible at waiting.  Here’s the thing though, I get to live everyday with Him.  Like the last 9 days. Devin, Jake, Kristen, Sally, Marisa, Rachel, Joy, Ivy, Cory, Chris, Clayton, Dawson & Stefan and I have seen Him do something captivating several times each day.  And guess what, there’s more!  He promises that each day’s life is to be continued.

So, tomorrow we leave SETECA, our comfy home-away-from-home, we get on a plane and arrive in Houston.  We go through immigration & customs, then wait 3 hours. Next, we get on a smaller jet plane and we fly to Tulsa where Nate Stokes will be waiting to pick us up (THANKS NATE!).  Then we will drive 2 hours back to Carthage. Arriving at approx 11PM, the tired travelers will soon be tucked into their beds at home, still spinning in their thoughts about the world as they now know it.  Do you think that during the long day of travel that Jesus will put His wonders on hold? NO WAY! He taught us how to be kind, the way He is kind.  So, I expect Him to use us in the airports.

Even though we are leaving Guate, we are not being put in a holding pattern. FOr certain, the “to be continued…”” will start again when we wake in our beds here at SETECA.  So, see ya on Wednesday night @ Fairview at 6:30PM for a great night of story telling.

oh yeah - Steve Austin did defeat the robot Sasquatch!