My Spiritual Journey in Lima, Peru...

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

- Stephen Covey

Karen, Marietta, Me and Linda

For I am mindful of the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. You call upon me and come and pray to me, and I heed you. You seek Me and find Me: Now you seek Me with all your heart and I am at hand for you, says the Lord... - Jeremiah 29:11-29

I think God wants and expects great things from us all. But it is fear that holds us back…Fear of failing if we reach too high…

So, we settle for less and think we are successful? Because it satisfies our goals and our needs; not God’s or the worlds… Hmmm…

What would this world be like if we all put aside our fear; if we... dreamed the impossible? What would it be like to see the impossible become possible?

 

 

Hector and Judith

God it’s such a small word for all that it encompasses. He is after all the creator of the universe, father from above, and mankind’s salvation.

Yet, he is such simple things as well, he is the heart warming feeling you get when a child touches your hand, the tears that slide down your cheeks when you are in pain, the sun shining on your face on a cold day, he is the breathtaking sunset you behold, the smile you give an old man, and he is the joy you give other people when you reach out to help…

My Heart Belongs to These Angels...

I have so much love to give and I think I have finally found someplace and some people who need my love and want it.

God gives us such blessings and fills our souls so we can in turn give back. I had a great man tell me once that anyone can read the Bible but to show God’s love and give God’s love was harder for people.

I thought not for me…I have such love for these people and I would give all of myself to them with a smile on my face and never regret one moment, instead I would be grateful to God for allowing me to do so...

I Pray for Cecelia daily...

I gave my testimony tonight; it felt like my heart had been ripped open and lay bleeding for all to see. The anguish I endured from my life poured out in my story for all the women of this small church.

After our women's meeting tonight at church I had so many women come up to me and tell me how my testimony touched their lives and how I inspired them.

One sweet lady told me I had been a rock that God had turned into a diamond and that my tears has polished that diamond , now there would be no more tears for me...  I cried and she shook her head with tears in her eyes and smiled and said NO more tears for you... 

One older woman came up to me after my testimony and covered me in her  beautiful alpaca shawl.  When the meeting was over I tried to find her to give it back (as it is expensive by Peruvian standards) at the very end I saw her and tried to give it back.

  She just wrapped it around me and told me she wanted me to keep it to remind me I was always covered in God's love...I cried ...  It is the most precious material gift I have ever been given.I fell in love in Peru...

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.For love is the beauty of the soul.  -Saint Augustine


I thank God daily for the "Gift" of Peru... My grandmother would say that God's little gifts dwell in our hearts and she would be right...

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness...
- Mark Twain