too much talking

Siempre's Boys dressed and ready for school - 9-1-08

Siempre Para Los Ninos - our children's home in Tijuana - one of my favorite spots on earth. A few of us spent Labor Day Weekend, laboring around the place, mostly sanding and painting in our new mission's house at Samaritan House @ Siempre Para Los Ninos. This morning, Monday, September 1, 2008, Theresa woke up early and started cooking her final meal of the weekend for the kids before they headed off to school. I snapped this photo with my phone just before the boys walked off with Brenda and Bianka guarding over them. After a great long weekend together- couldn't have felt better about our work in Mexico -what's gone on in the past, what's yet to come in the future and especially what's happening right now. God's incredibly good.

Jumped online this evening and cruised through the sites I track on a daily basis when home. So much of it seemed trivial in light of housing kids so recently abandoned into our care. We'd slept in the new building- in sleeping bags on air mattresses -dreaming about the day Samaritan House is packed every night with groups from across the country and around the world sharing the hope and vision of Siempre. Our time in TJ wonderfully renewed my perspective yet dampened my enthusiasm for the bloggers I follow. Writers were putting their theology into posts and comments with long threads of online arguments... not what they'd call them... but it's what they are.

Don't want to minimize the depth of their concerns or come off as prideful, arrogant or condescending... I mean... truth be told, each debate sucks me in and I want to respond and put in my .02 cents... sometimes I do. This evening, wasn't nearly as tempted to enter the fray- reading their Jack Handy like "Deep Thoughts," I wanted to say: "Wish you could have been with us last weekend." "Wish you could have had breakfast with Siempre's kids."

So very thankful I had the opportunity to be there- no computer -cell phone off -working at something that feels so real... if you ever feel like there's just too much talking going on, you're invited to share the miracle at Siempre. Every visit's a gift from God.

blessings,

Eric