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\"Despair-795x440\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/em><\/p>\n

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It’s a little hard to explain the feelings and emotions that we feel each day since last Saturday when the earthquake hit. \u00a0I feel like there is so much I want to say, but I’m not sure if it will articulate well, but I figured I would try anyway, because I need the release of letting it go and I’m sure people are wondering how things are. \u00a0You also may be thinking that because we are safe and sound, why are we so emotional? \u00a0I will do my best to explain…<\/p>\n

Since Monday of this week, there have been meetings, a lot of meetings with the Covenant National Church of Ecuador, F.A.C.E., the Santiago Partnership and basically anyone in the area who wants to attend and be involved. \u00a0We have been working to plan how best we can help those on the coast that desperately, DESPERATELY need help. \u00a0These meetings are draining. \u00a0In all honesty, we don’t want to think about the things we are talking about. \u00a0We don’t want to imagine what people are facing just miles and hours from where we are. \u00a0I personally don’t want to think of women, children, families torn apart, children without parents, parents missing children or facing the reality that they will never see them again. \u00a0I don’t want to imagine the images that our fellow missionaries, pastors and lay people are seeing. \u00a0Because let’s be honest, it’s easier not to think about it. \u00a0It is easier to think about MY children who are safe and sound, MY family who is together over dinner to pray and eat together, to be silly together and to ‘be normal’. \u00a0It is easier than thinking of those families that have nothing, no water, no food, no families…no hope tonight. \u00a0I feel bad admitting that, but I feel it needs to be said so I can say this…<\/p>\n

I remember when we lived in the States and there were natural disasters that were…”out there”, in Japan, in Haiti. \u00a0I remember being, well, jaded. \u00a0Knowing that because it didn’t affect me or those I knew and loved that, that was THAT! \u00a0I prayed of course, every once in a while I thought about it…at a distance. \u00a0But this isn’t a distance away now. \u00a0It is here, in my country. \u00a0It could just as easily have been our family who was lost and wouldn’t I want someone to help me? \u00a0To help us? \u00a0To find us, to bring us food, clothing, shelter? \u00a0How can I be different thinking of others now that aren’t far away? \u00a0Why has it taken an earthquake here to help me realize that? \u00a0It became clear to me this morning that because I remember what I felt like in the States with those disasters “over there” and those suffering across the ocean. \u00a0It didn’t faze me…I could look at pictures, see the loss, see stories of rescue and I wasn’t even fazed. \u00a0But now, being here, it is a whole new thing. \u00a0I feel like we are carrying the weight of our world, our world in Ecuador. \u00a0We have angst to help but want to make sure we help and not make things worse, we want to GO but we know we need to prepare before we do so. \u00a0 It such a fury of thoughts running through our head that sometimes we can’t put our thoughts together once we get home.<\/p>\n

We just prayed for Joel as he will be going to the Coast tomorrow to evaluate further action with other church leaders. \u00a0I looked into the eyes of our children and was so thankful for God’s protection and provision. \u00a0But we also think of those who are suffering. \u00a0The orphans, the widows, those who have nothing right now and we pray for them, we lament with them and we petition you to do the same. \u00a0I know it is far easier to not imagine what things must be like here, I know, I get it, I have been there. \u00a0But I ask you to go there. \u00a0Go deeper and let yourself stand with those who are suffering here because this is what God calls us to. \u00a0Our neighbor which Scripture speaks about is not just our literal neighbor next door. \u00a0If we are to love our neighbor as ourselves as Mark 12 says, then we should be feeling what they feel, hurting when they hurt, lamenting and suffering when they suffer. \u00a0It’s not the easy way. \u00a0It is much easier to put it out of our minds, look the other way, “focus on the positives”, but we live in a world where bad things, awful and unimaginable things happen and as Christ followers, we must CHOOSE to love, choose to show compassion and mercy and build each other up. \u00a0Choose it today.<\/p>\n

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