Nada mas.

I have been doing a lot of thinking in the last few days and I will admit, quite a lot of worrying. However, whenever I get to worrying all I need to do is take a walk just outside of town and go into one of the barios. These are the poor towns on the outskirts of town. Out there, children play in the dirt in the streets next to the garbage they took out that morning. Garbage, dirt, it does not matter, they are happy. It does not mean that they are healthy or that they will have by US standards, "a good life." It just means that in that moment, they have found the ray of light that God in his astounding grace has sent from heaven.

If I do not want to walk as far, all I have to do is go to the house for teenaged girls at the end of town. Nuestro Aliados, the organization I will be working for, just discovered that at night police have been conducting so called "interviews" with the girls for several years. In my narrow-minded view, all I can think about is how hard it is that I do not have very much money. In reality, I am so blessed to have enough of a concept of money that I can worry about it. Those girls, who are my age, do not worry about money or what they are going to go to college next semester. They just hope that someone will give them the respect that they as simple children of God deserve.

The world is not about money or school or any of the things that the world gets caught up in. It is about simple, pure, inexplainable, undescribable grace.