Sunday, June 5, 2011

Today was the last day of the mission trip and we are spending it driving back to Albuquerque. However, to entertain us rambunctious kids, we are watching a movie titled as Facing the Giants. This movie is about a football team that is not doing good and the coach has his job threatened. The coaches wife really wants to have a kid, but is unable to. When the coach starts feeling really down, he pulls out a bible and starts to read the scripture. He preached to the football team and made a big difference in their lives.That one little light shined on the whole school and the kids broke into groups and just started confessing sins and became a family. Those little lights where each one difference. One difference leads up to the big difference. When we were working and building houses, each one of us was a light. A light that lit up the homeowners dark corner. My friend Rachel and i were upset that we couldn't make a bigger difference in each homeowners life devastated by Katrina. However, our small group leader, rob green, made it clear that we couldn't rebuild everyone's homes, even though everyone would like to. But there was one way we could help everyone. This was praying for them. Although we couldn't make a physical difference, we could make a spiritual difference.This was my first missn trip and I was deeply impacted.I realized how much I took for granted and how much I have compared to a lady that really inspired me. Her name was Barbra. After Katrina, her home was one of the many homes that was destroyed. This year, she found out that she had a brain tumor that she thought was to be a stroke. Did she care? No. She focused on how much she was blessed and didn't focus on it. She has truly changed my life around and I won't look at anything the same again.

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