The house is done! Today around 5 pm, Mexico time, we said goodbye to the family after handing over keys to their house, gifts for the family, and lots of toys for the children on the block.
There weren't a lot of people around because this house was in a remote hill where there were very few house. On our street all the houses were Amor houses, those of the same ministry we were working with.
We didn't spend hardly any time with the dad. He was at work. We didn't see him again today. But we did spend some good times with the mom and the children.
We are most definitely changed. The thing that lingers in my mind, though, is that we have simply made a dent. We made a difference, and that's important, but I can't help but believe that there is more. I don't necessarily think we need to build more houses, and we should, but I mean that maybe there's more I can do in the way I live every day.
Maybe if i was more willing to live in a way that honored these inpoverished people, i would actually be honoring them, and acknowledging their needs.
I really am a pretty self-absorbed person. It seems absolutely impossible for me to ever live this way. The thought that i would ever sell everything and go serve God and people, just seems like fiction to me.
I don't think that's what I am suppossed to do; but I do think that I live better than over 90% of the rest of the world. Maybe changing the way I live means I know how others live and I care and I'm willing to make the world a more balanced place, a more just and loving place.
The Garcia family has a new house and the had the biggest smiles ever. We have much to think about, and much to pray about, and much to do.
Father, speak, and may we listen with the kind of obedience that would surrender anything.
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