it has been an eventful few days.
saturday. jill and i went to a wedding for this couple who go to the church we are staying next too. of course, we had no niice clothes so we went the wedding, people we have never met by the way, in jeans and a t-shirts :]. we snuck out the back to help serve dinner and got to eat some delicous food...including Red Velet Cake!! i met my host family too...such cute kiddos. then we explored downtown Indy and walked the Canal. i've lived no more than 30 minutes away from downtown Indy all my life and i never realized how cool it is.
monday. i went to our last rebuilding the wall x-treme Jesus crew for the school year. it was a fantastic time to just hang out and enjoy my girls. we had DELICIOUS food!!! i remember when i first started at RtW and i saw that Mary had put me in the girl's class and I was asking God what He was thinking...but now, i never knew i could love a group of girls so much. they have taught me so much more than i ever thought i could teach them and i would do anything for them. im glad i will be around a bit this summer, but im nervous for going back to school next year...
btw. im basically coming back to CU. Jesus is working it out! :]
a few observations:
i have been in the house since thursday. not one night has gone by without hearing sirens, at least once, if not more. not one night...
as you drive down Washington street, there is an empty parking lot across from a gas station. Hispanics will stand/sit all day long, waiting for someone to come and hire them for the day to work. at the end of the day, most get paid...but there are those few that do not get paid. they are taken advantage of and because some are undocumented, they most definately have no one to report to about not getting paid. with my social work mind and heart, i'm thinking of a solution...
outside our house is a playground and the kids from the school in the church play on it each night as we head home, and, of course, we always end up going out to play. i was sitting next to this 4-year old boy named Michael, and he was telling me about the kids he didn't like and how he wanted to fight them and kill them and use his gun. a 4 -year-old child. is talking about killing people. with guns. thinking that it is okay. everything is about violence. even with my RtW girls...fighting. we desperately have to teach our children another way of dealing with things. an eye for an eye and the whole world will end up blind...
problems never have one solution here...you have to peel back layers of the onion to find out the root cause. and, you probably cannot fix it all yourself. you need community. [[go to the people. live among them. learn from them. love them. start with what they know. build on what they have: but the best of the leaders. when their task is done. the people will remark 'we have done it ourselves']]
lecrae has some of the best, most beautiful, truthful lyrics i have ever heard. if you don't like rap, listen to his stuff anyways...
Jesus IS in the city...you may not see Him at first glance, or second, or third, it may take a long time to realize it...but HE is here.
**pictures to come.
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