Blessed are the poor
Blessed are the poor // Nov 03, 2005
We've been busy. Here's a rundown since our last encounter with that Crowder fellow: we went on a young adult retreat in Flagstaff, we've heard a whole lot of talks, we put on a day retreat for the freshmen of St. Mary's High School, but the highlight was our 4 days in Agua Prieta, Mexico. Less than a few miles across the US border lies a town filled with some of the most loving, hospitable, joyful, and alive people this side of North America. We worked and played at two orphanages and a soup-kitchen for school kids, we proclaimed God's love in a high-school and a rehab center, and we gave away as much clothes and food as our vans could hold. We came to serve them, but in truth we were the ones bettered by the encounter. We left their poverty of cardboard houses and shoeless children to return to our poverty of all the IKEAs and Costcos of the world. All at once it is beautiful and tragic, grateful and shameful. Vive Mexico.