Headed for bed – but not before I tell you about the most arrogant position I’ve even taken, and the broken humility that came on its heels.
………
I wrote that sentence 2 days ago. It is now July 22.
I have sweat and re sweat and then sweat again.
I have built cinderblock footings, moved concrete and mounds&mounds of dirt.
Today I’m going out with the medical team into the villages. They are taking medical surveys for the clinic that we are building. Two days Drew made a visit. Last night, one of the Drs on the trip told me he had followed up with the child and mom and that Drew had saved that child’s life. Not heroic measures, but with water and Tylenol.
10 of thousands of people die daily, all over the world, due to a lack of fresh water.
10 billion dollars would supply fresh water.
That’s what American’s spend on ice cream each year.
Americans spent 600,000 billion on Christmas each year.
We are 5% of the world population and consume 40% of the world’s resources.
And here is the point I started on July 20.
And then I bring my fat, free voting, Christian, American butt over to save the day.
One small matter of fact, on top of all that: I haven’t had the common decency to learn their language before I swoop in to save the day.
The mighty American. What a crock.
And so, I break my back over a ditch. Lay tile as beautifully as I can. Sand down school desks and pray over each one. Hoist cinderblocks over rebar, and wonder, all the while… Will this change me.
I want to be changed.
Please God.
Change me.
Cuan Grande es Dios.
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