Rice & Beans

Pastor Kent has challenged us to identify with the people whom we will be helping in the months and years to come. They do not have much to eat and mostly eat rice mixed with some beans. So, we have been challenged to see how that feels, thus helping us understand just a little bit about how they live each day. It also is a challege for us to get closer to God, to gaze upone His face and maybe somehow see through His eyes the world around us. It is bringing me closer to the cross at calvary. Just this morning during my devotion time I listened to a sermon on Hope, from the Passion series by Louie Giglio. He also pointed me to the cross, the place where we find hope, where we come to realize that God loves us. Going through these few days and for the next three weeks God will ultimately bring us all to the cross, even the people of Nicargua, because that is the place we all must come...