Even still today it is difficult for me to talk about our experience in Ecuador. It’s not that everything was completely awful… I think that part of it is that maybe I didn’t really know thankfulness until now. I have often wondered and even asked the Lord why; why has this or that happened in my life, why this circumstance or another, why these sorrows etc. Today those why’s seem so trivial and I realize that I have taken so much for granted. I know that God isn’t upset at me, but to myself I say “how dare I complain”. There are children out there who from their first breaths will never ever so much as have a mother say I love you, let alone be offered the wealth of opportunities that I have wasted.

A global perspective gives new meaning to so many scriptures and while we don’t have all the details worked out yet, it would be a waste not to use the resources, wealth and talent we have so generously been given, so here I sit, blogging from the hood… with intentions for the world…