Today’s reflection comes from Josh Keller:
I feel honored to have served a week with my fellow members of Calvary in El Salvador. I admit some parts of the week stretched me farther than others. Listening to the ocean waves was much easier to take in vice the stories of injustice and life claimed by the ignorance of hate.
The history of this country and what they had been though was a lot to wrap my head around but I also felt hope with witnessing many acts of humanitarian compassion on this trip. God is found in these moments, the church community providing food for those who have not, the pastor who loves his youth so much he would drive them an hour for a possible scholarship, and a group of Gringos trying to figure out what is their part. This is God at work amidst his people.
I feel like I am still processing the amount of work that needs to be done on a global level and what my part is as a solo act in this crazy thing called the world. Many live without proper medical attention and some with a limited amount of food they can eat each day because they simply don’t have the resources. What can I do to help? What is my role and why has God allowed to ME to be born into this privileged life? All these are questions that can be daunting and many times easier to just let alone. Am I going to make a difference as one person? Every time I think these thoughts, I hear……. “It just takes one.”
It takes one, just one
And then one follows the other one
And then the other follows another one
Next thing you know you got a billion
People doing some wonderful things
People doing some powerful things
Let’s change and do some powerful things
Unity could be a wonderful thing
“BEP Union”
