It's been a long two days back reintegrating into the society we left barely two weeks ago. Yet, it sometimes feels like a lifetime ago.
I certainly feel profoundly changed from this trip. One thing in particular that I can't forget is how much really LIVING the word transforms not only the person who's living it/ in it but those around you. It's like God is pleased to be right there in the room enjoying it just as much as you are.
Case in point: Psalm 133: 1-3--"BEHOLD, HOW good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2It is like the precious ointment poured on the head...
3...for there the Lord has commanded the blessing, even life forevermore [upon the high and the lowly]."
There was so much undeniable unity on this trip within the team. God had to have handpicked each one. We may have disagreements here and there but none of it affected the overall sense of the group as a whole. We ate, slept, worked and served as one continuous unit.
All the prayers, support and, overall--God's spirit that brought us through to the end with so many good things sewn up in our hearts that only comes from a place of true, God-honoring, Biblical community.
It was so good that some of us, after not sleeping and getting up at 3 or 4 in the a.m. on our first night back (yesterday) Facebooked each other to meet at Zippy's for an early morning devo/breakfast. It was fabulous!
We have not only been blessed to be able to serve those in Haiti but have come back to Hawaii with 12 other brothers and sisters in Christ, some new, some old--but all now FAMILY!
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