{"id":4463,"date":"2016-01-10T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2016-01-10T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T14:02:00","slug":"long-time-coming-by-jess-delp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=4463","title":{"rendered":"Long Time Coming by Jess Delp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Simeon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4464\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Simeon.jpg\" alt=\"_Jess_Simeon\" width=\"448\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Simeon.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Simeon-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Oyacachi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4465\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Oyacachi.jpg\" alt=\"Jess_Oyacachi\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Oyacachi.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Oyacachi-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Swing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4466\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Swing.jpg\" alt=\"Jess_Swing\" width=\"700\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Swing.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/01\/Jess_Swing-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><em>(This is a reflection shared by Jess Delp who volunteered with the Santiago Partnership for two weeks in July 2015)<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2>First off, I want to apologize for the\u00a0embarrassingly\u00a0late post. Unfortunately a few things came up\u00a0that had to take\u00a0priority over writing this; new schools, new friends, new ambitions. And now we\u2019re on the brink of\u00a0a new year (hope you have a lovely one!), a time when everyone\u00a0reflects\u00a0on the old and nurses\u00a0hope for the future. So it\u00a0feels right to finish this blog now, to look back and thank Abba\u00a0for all the undeserved blessings He\u2019s given me\u00a0through\u00a0Ecuador, to thank Him for\u00a0exposing me for who I was, for\u00a0showing me how far\u00a0I was from who He\u00a0intended me to be. Plus, there\u2019s no homework breathing down my neck now, which is always nice when something like this needs done. But fair warning, this is going to be a long post- for now, I\u2019m going to share one of my college essays with you;<\/h2>\n<h2><em>\u00a0I don\u2019t like granadillas. They are the most malicious and deceptive little fruit I have ever encountered, hiding their acrid, gel-encased seeds until you\u2019ve already pierced the shell and condemned yourself to hours of bitter aftertaste. Eating them takes willpower, pushes you\u00a0way\u00a0out of your comfort zone. The first time I had one I was in my cousin\u2019s living room, waiting to catch the plane back home, a place without granadillas. And I didn\u2019t want to leave.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Before Ecuador I was very much your stereotypical, melodramatic seventeen-year-old at ease with\u00a0her lukewarm life. I was an okay sister, an okay friend, and, worst of all, an okay Christian going through the motions. My faith was threadbare, wavering in the face of even the most insignificant troubles. I mistrusted God so much that I planned to turn from my faith\u00a0once I began college. Nothing I did carried any worth, and the world revolved around me.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then my kind parents surprised me with a volunteer trip to Ecuador, a land of snarled jungles and breathtaking mountains (literally breathtaking-those mountains are steep). I had the honor of being privy to its beauty for a time, a beauty not half as remarkable as the people living in it. They are among the boldest, most compassionate people I have ever met. They embraced me, a total stranger, with ardent love, and showed me that the life I desperately wanted was still within reach.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A kind-hearted Ecuadorian, a friend I had known for less than a day, paid for my lunch despite the money already in my hands, leaving me fumbling for words beyond \u201cgracias.\u201d I was called \u201clittle sister\u201d by a church-full of loving strangers. I saw poverty there, in the form of an sweet, emaciated twelve-year-old who loved soccer. And I met the people who devoted their lives to helping those like him. Most of them live in a world of chronic poverty, of tarp houses and trials more bitter than the granadillas they sell along the road. In spite of it all, their faith is unwavering. Despite the little they have, they do their utmost to lift each other up. They earnestly follow God, even\u00a0in the face of the\u00a0vices we share as human beings.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Their bold lives stressed the paleness of mine, made me so sick of surviving and so ready to pour my life out for my God and finally leave my complacency behind. I\u2019ve never experienced anything like Ecuador before, never felt so convicted, so loved or so challenged that far from home. Simply living alongside them forced me to encounter who I was and to compare myself to the person I wanted to be. I encountered my self-pity after seeing the devastating effects of a landslide on the community of Oyacachi, and saw the Christian I wanted to be reflected in the ever joyous and unshakable faith of its inhabitants. I encountered my pride every time I met another incredible, faithful Ecuadorian christian, humbled knowing that, despite my privileges, they were my superiors. I encountered my insecurities after comparing my hollow life to theirs, and saw how utterly inconsequential mine was. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Acknowledging those characteristics was difficult for me, harder than swallowing granadilla seeds. Ever since I\u2019ve been fighting those traits in me, and, though I still stumble and fall, I think I\u2019m drawing closer to being the \u201cJess\u201d God wants me to be, and doing my best to draw others\u00a0close to the Father who adores them, just as the Ecuadorian church did for me. Nothing can stop me from seeking out God and His plan for me now, for finding the next granadilla He has in store for me\u2014I want another so badly.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2>He\u00a0worked through so many people during my time in Ecuador, so many passionate, God-loving\u00a0Christians. \u00a0I can\u2019t begin to tell you how grateful I am for them and the lessons they taught me-for reminding\u00a0me of the power of prayer, the essential nature of hope, for serving as role models. I don\u2019t mean to idealize or generalize the nature of the people I met-they\u2019re all human, and I\u2019m sure\u00a0they\u2019ve all struggled with vices or doubts or misgivings at some point. But they go on anyway, fighting for the beloved children of Ecuador in the face of poverty, doing what\u00a0they can to stay in God\u2019s will. Someday I hope to rejoin them, if that\u2019s God\u2019s will for me, to have a servant\u2019s heart as full as theirs. I can never thank them enough for showing me what\u00a0a reckless, ardent life of faith looks like.<\/h2>\n<h2>I think about Ecuador every day now, thanking the Lord for the person He\u2019s challenged me to become through my time there. Admittedly I\u2019m still nowhere close to being her, but I\u2019m getting there bit by bit, day by day, year by year. I hope to\u00a0come even\u00a0closer in the upcoming one, and give Him as much glory as I can-we\u2019ll call it my New Year\u2019s resolution. In fact I\u2019d like to ask anyone reading this to\u00a0hold me accountable to that, to feel free to give me a heads up if you see me straying. On that note, I\u2019ll do all I can to support your resolutions (especially since you\u2019ve read this much of my post), what ever area of your life it may be in. As for me, I want to re-devote myself to Abba, I want to chase after Him, give Him my life. He\u00a0arrested my heart through Ecuador, and I don\u2019t want it back.<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Simeon quote of the day:<\/h2>\n<h2>\u201cHow many minutes until you come\u00a0back?\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=4463&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is a reflection shared by Jess Delp who volunteered with the Santiago Partnership for two weeks in July 2015) First off, I want to apologize for the\u00a0embarrassingly\u00a0late post. Unfortunately a few things came up\u00a0that had to take\u00a0priority over writing this; new schools, new friends, new ambitions. And now we\u2019re on the brink of\u00a0a new &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=4463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,42,4074,72],"tags":[186,24649,24662,18825],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador","category-ministry","category-reflections","category-updates","tag-ecuador-info","tag-ministry","tag-reflections","tag-the-santiago-partnership"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Long Time Coming by Jess Delp - Delplog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=4463\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Long Time Coming by Jess Delp - Delplog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(This is a reflection shared by Jess Delp who volunteered with the Santiago Partnership for two weeks in July 2015) First off, I want to apologize for the\u00a0embarrassingly\u00a0late post. 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