sunny sundays

it's saturday, but tomorrow is sunny sunday. apparently in the spring, lima only has sunshine on sundays...so i'm clinging to that cuz today is especially cold.

things are really great right now, hard, but great. i've come to grips with it never being easy to live life here in lima. the trick is learning to find joy in small things and find light in dark places. i really feel like god is opening my eyes to a lot right now. he's showing me how to be joyful and still mourn the suffering of this world.

friday night i went out on the streets again. it was an interesting time because we didn't see too many of 'the regulars' but it was very tranquilo and allowed me time to process. it's easy to feel helpless in dark places like the streets of lima. however, i feel like god's saying it's okay to mourn for our friends on the streets. it's okay to be sad. these kids often times go unnoticed and forgotten...it's as if they are invisible. so if my heart wants to mourn their situations, then yes, it's okay to mourn with them because they need that. they need people to care, they need people to listen to their cries, they need people to be excited with them, to cry with them, to laugh with them--they need people to love them and wrap their arms around them...i feel privileged to get to share the love of god with our friends here.

i'm really excited about everything right now. excited about the ministry here and about what god will do with me when i go home. i'm not sure what i'm going to be doing when i get back to the states, but i feel it's been revealed to me that i won't have a normal job...ever. i am content in whatever circumstances i am dealt...even when they're tough. ah, things are great. and they're even better when the sun is shining. thank god for sunny sundays.