The World is beautiful, ugly, inviting, frightening, tempting, rewarding, heart-warming, and heart-breaking all at the same time. The World can lead us to, or away, from God - but it can only do what we allow it to.
This is the painting that Adam and I brought back from our mission trip in Guatemala. It is one of the many decorations still sitting on the floor waiting to be put on a wall in our new home. It captures the simple beauty of Antigua Vieja and reminds me of a time when I was able to quench my thirst for travel while at the same time bettering the world and allowing the world to better me. I have been blessed with the opportunity to travel abroad again this year. I will be serving as a translator for a mission trip to Mexicali, Mexico and as a chaperone for a study abroad trip to Costa Rica with some of my Spanish 2 students in June. I am so looking forward to scratching my traveling itch, to speak Spanish with native speakers again, and to serve. As I travel with these young adults I hope to not only serve as a resource for them, but also as a role model. I hope to set an example for how to be a respectful tourist, and inquisitive world traveler, a helping hand, and a light to all those that we interact with. I fear that we so often forget God's first directive to us to be good stewards of the world. Call it karma if you want, but I believe that if we are good to the world, the world will lead us to good.
1 Corinthians 4:1-2
This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. 2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
Titus 2:7
7 Show yourself in all respects a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity,
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