How do we begin to sum up an experience that has taught us and touched so much?
We’ve walked a road in which we’ve learned about war and violence, oppression from government past and present, class disparity and social rejection, of natural disaster, and disease. But we’ve also walked a road that has shown us the magnitude of simple joys, hospitality, the resilience of people through faith and hope, and of God’s goodness and beauty that refuses to be ever completely extinguished.
I struggle most with knowing how to conclude. I speak for all of us when I say that we want to give you this package bursting with all we’ve learned and all the ways we’ve changed and want other to change. But how to present this package to you. What’s next?
We’ve walked a road in which we’ve learned about war and violence, oppression from government past and present, class disparity and social rejection, of natural disaster, and disease. But we’ve also walked a road that has shown us the magnitude of simple joys, hospitality, the resilience of people through faith and hope, and of God’s goodness and beauty that refuses to be ever completely extinguished.
I struggle most with knowing how to conclude. I speak for all of us when I say that we want to give you this package bursting with all we’ve learned and all the ways we’ve changed and want other to change. But how to present this package to you. What’s next?
I don’t have a concise answer to follow here. Don’t get your hopes up.
I’ve chosen one single simple verse from psalm 133 which says:
1 How good and pleasant it is when brothers and sisters live together in unity!
Unity. Unity. I seems so simple. But it means so much or would mean so much for people in Guatemala and for our own lives here.
To live in unity means, to have peace and respect for others, to share equally so that divisions aren’t made, to be in community and love with one another. What would our cultural landscapes in Guatamala and here in Canada look like, if people lived in genuine unity?
As a group anxious to move forward with what we’ve learned, we ask you to join with us in critiquing our lives to determine ways in which we don’t live in unity with others. Whether this be the way we treat people next door, or from different social status or how our actions and lifestyle choices impact those further away from us, in places like central America.
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