I have realized that God provides family in unexpected ways and unexpected proportions. Even though I missed my family, I was surrounded by a wonderful community of believers that supported me in so many wonderful ways. It was encouraging to start the school days with staff devotions and then throughout the week have small groups and worship times. I was also connected to an awesome church family and always looked forward to connecting with them each week.
I found within myself the passion for teaching that God had steadily been building in me since my freshman year. I can feel myself light up when I talk about "my" students and classroom or tell stories about my teaching experiences.
One of my journal entries sums this up well: "As I stood looking at my classroom for the last time, tears welled up in my eyes. In the short time I had been there, I had learned much about myself and learned to love my students. I had found the passion for teaching had grown from deep within me, a God-answer within itself. I had built relationships with other teachers and staff persons that went deeper than relationships within the fast-paced American culture. I had seen the truth of the verse in Romans 8:31, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”"
I left a part of my heart in Honduras, a country of so many contradictions, and as I re-read a poem I wrote about a week before leaving Honduras, my heart aches. I remember driving up the mountain at night looking over the city and seeing the lights, which were so distinctly seen, and thinking of the people represented by each light.The people who are so warm and welcoming as individuals, yet who are lost in a land of corruption.
Para Honduras en el nombre de Jesús. Amen y amen.
Las luces de azul y oro
Dan un oración a Dios
Cada luz brilla clara
Una en el valle de millones
Dan un oración a Dios
Cada luz brilla clara
Una en el valle de millones
Una ciudad de mucha gente
Puertas cerradas para el mundo
Las calles giran arriba y abajo
Va rápido, va lento
Puertas cerradas para el mundo
Las calles giran arriba y abajo
Va rápido, va lento
Bienvenidos y bendiciones a ti, pero
La necesidad para el Señor es grande
Un lugar de gran corrupción
En la tierra linda de Dios
La necesidad para el Señor es grande
Un lugar de gran corrupción
En la tierra linda de Dios
¿Es una luz mi vida?
Un líder o una sirvienta
Para los corazones hambrientos
Que necesitan un fuego santo
Un líder o una sirvienta
Para los corazones hambrientos
Que necesitan un fuego santo
