staying present when it’s hard
For the first week or so of being in Guatemala City, I was really homesick, disconnected, and not present. One night, we were going over James 4 as a team and this passage really hit me in what I was going through.
“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or...