I’m calling to you, where you are, to greater things. I will teach you to see them through my
eyes. –Love, Jesus.
Our first night out of the city of Yangon, we stayed in a
fairly large village in the Delta Region.
Previously affected by Cyclone Nargis in 2008, the villages have spent
time rebuilding their homes, their culture, and their livelihood. We stayed in the village’s community
center. We trekked into the
village late at night, when most were asleep. Some of the homes were still lit inside by open fire in
their bamboo huts. You could smell
dinner remnants as well as fire pits as they were being left to die down over
night until the rooster’s morning call stoked and rekindled the flames. The next morning’s dawn brought with it
new opportunities to hear new stories and to hear rebuilt hope after it was so
abruptly taken from them in 2008.
This was the beginning of a trek across a Southeast Asian jungle to a
land where few foreigners had ever been.
“Jesus loves us enough to confront us where we are, because
He wants greater things for our lives.
Compassion never says you can stay where you are. Compassion will call you out of a
simple lifestyle into a story that will blow your mind.” -P. Noble
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| A village in the Delta Region of Myanmar |
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