I have been thinking and praying for a while about reaching out to the women on the Limon side of the ghetto. Not just the mothers of the kids in the schools, but the women in the community of La Limonada, at large. After a staff meeting last week at Mandarina, my unspoken goals were [...]
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Ojos de Gato
Posted in becoming who I want to be, La Limon, passion, prayer on April 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Branching Out
Posted in beautiful nightmare, becoming who I want to be, love, prayer on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Limon side of the ghetto has been experiencing an increase in violence in the past month. The team at La Limon has decided to start doing something about this. We have decided to begin making home visits more of a priority, after the Semana Santa holiday. Today, I got to go on my first [...]
Release
Posted in becoming who I want to be, La Limon, prayer, visitors on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For the past couple of weeks, the team serving at La Limon has been dealing with difficulties on our side of the ghetto. There has been a surge of violence. Families falling apart. Increase in gang activity. Various family problems with different students coming to surface. All of these, and more, have been weighing heavily [...]
In A Day
Posted in beautiful nightmare, compassion, prayer on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The last 24 hours have been a roller coaster of emotions. I started yesterday morning with the news that Cherie had purchased my plane ticket home to visit my family in May. I was so happy… not because I want to leave Guatemala, but because it’s been over 3 months since I have seen my [...]
Highs, Lows, and Survival
Posted in beautiful nightmare, following my heart, La Limon, prayer on March 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Just like every other person on the planet, I go through highs and lows. I just have to remember that this is normal… although I think that Americans like to pretend that things are ‘great’ or ‘fine’ all the time. On our way home from Antigua yesterday, the traffic was awful. Once we got closer [...]
Iglacia de San Francisco
Posted in grace, prayer on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Directly across the street from our apartment is la Iglacia de San Francisco, a massive church built here in Antigua in the 1700′s. At 6 am every morning the church bells ring… and wake me up. My host-mom, Marta Julia, took me on a tour on the first day that I was in Antigua. The church [...]
