- Can you see what I see?

- Can you see what I see?

March 17, 2010, 8:37 PM
Filed under: Bible, children, Christian, eye glasses, God, Honduras, hunger, Kids Against Hunger, Lions Club International, Minnesota, mission trip, Uncategorized

Close your eyes.

Wait.  Open them…  to read.

Against a green, mountainous background in 90 degree temperatures, imagine a thousand God moments of…

• a wonderful, gifted team…
• good people.  everywhere…
• bartering for, peeling and eating sweet, finger size banana’s…
• listening to rocks rolling under crashing ocean waves…
• a church sanctuary full of people patiently waiting for a chance at sight…
• banana trees…
• machetes…
• men and children riding donkeys and horses carrying containers for water…
• geckos….  everywhere (insert brief screaming here)…
• thin cows, horses and donkeys freely and closely grazing along highway ditches…
• laughing…  a lot…
• dogs running freely…
• putting stickers on children…
• blisters…
• the freshest cut, sweetest pineapple dripping from your chin…
• refried beans, fresh tortilla’s, rice and Coke Lite…
• trees planted close together to suffice as pasture fence posts…
• vultures…
• dirt roads…
• palm trees…
• bright coral, yellow and robin’s egg blue casa’s (homes)…
• an unexpected and not recommended up close look at a coral snake (insert machete here)…
• a funeral casket shop…
• 175 children eating bowls full of food packaged by Kids Against Hunger…
• a six year old boy who smiled as he pointed at an image across the room when he received his eye glasses…
• municipal workers cutting road ditches with machetes…
• cars, semi’s, bicycles, trucks, vans and motorcycles maneuvering like bumper cars on nameless and signless  paved roads…
• pot holes as big as a bumper car…
• flocks and flocks of chickens…
• the whitest laundry hanging from clothes lines everywhere …
• opening my backpack to ensure my roll of toilet paper still exists…
• a boat on named ‘Jeff’…
• holding a week old baby while her mother received eye glasses…
• extreme poverty…
• children with bashful smiles…
• our team distributing 1,000 pair of eyeglasses in three days…
• jalapeno relish…
• widow maker showers…
• dust…
• one small, long haired feeder pig…
• hammocks hanging from trees…
• broken jar lined walls around homes…
• eight people living in a 8′ by 8′ room…
• peopled lined around two blocks waiting for eye glasses…
• carrying water to flush toilets…
• no electricity…
• no faucet water…
• coffee bean plants…
• water, but no electricity…
• waiting…
• a praying mantis…
• dusty, sandaled feet…
• hanging our clothes to dry on a roof top clothes line…
• children carrying gathered bundles of wood on their shoulders…
• women cooking over open fires…
• semi automatic and shot gun toting store and bank guards…
• children playing soccer in a field with a flat ball…
• people waiting for hours behind a tall, black wrought iron gate, hoping to receive eye glasses…
• bottled water for drinking and brushing teeth…
• swimming in the cool of the Caribbean Sea…
• the little girl with no buttons to hold her sailor dress on…
• a scorpion (add screaming here, too)…
• 96 year old Gregoria Orello:  the very beautiful Mayan woman who walked 20 miles to receive eye glasses…
• Honduran Army check points…
• riding in the back of a pickup with luggage for five hours in 97* heat…
• standing sewage pools…
• children walking to school in white and navy school uniforms…
• unpaved city and village roads packed with field rock…
• children singing Sunday School songs…
• a teacher walking 12 hours with her students to receive eye glasses…
• giving away quilts…
• giving away hugs…
• red, three wheeled, canopied taxi cabs…
• children with no shoes…
• waking up to crowing roosters six feet from the window…
• learning to count Lempira (currency)…
• giving people in need new crutches, canes, walkers and wheel chairs…

And, ‘”God willing…”‘ as our Honduran friends would say, I can’t wait until next year.

kay (smiling)

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