This blog is a continuation of another. From May 28 - August 2, 2008, I kept a blog at honduruss.blogspot.com to track my growth and adventures as an intern for TORCH Missions in the third world country of Honduras. That blog was started as a journal that I was going to turn in for college credit for my experiences. I published it on the web to let my parents and my sister know what I was doing. I never expected it to take off like it did. I started getting Facebook messages from people that I didn't even know talking to me about one of my latest posts, and my church back home even picked up on the blog and started keeping up with it, as well as the minister using it for small group Bible studies and even preaching from it in the pulpit. I never wanted to post any of it for my glory or recognition, so it was a little embarrassing at first to hear that so many people were reading it; but I realized that they were reading and benefiting from it because I was just telling the world how I was finding God and how He was displaying His love for others, so I don't think I saw the blog as a prideful journal to boast about anymore at all.
And that's where this blog comes in. I want to share with anyone who picks up on this where I am seeing God today, and how I am realizing His love and His purpose and His mission in my everyday life. Because I am done with Honduras; but I am never done with faith. And as long as I have faith, I have reason to serve God and others, and hopefully inspire you to do the same.
When I came home from Honduras, I started seeing things a lot differently. I see the church differently, and I know that I'll share some of that with you in future blog posts; I see people differently too; I see poverty differently. I made a commitment within myself to never go past a homeless person and not try and do something about it; I made a commitment to try and really connect with people, and in so doing, shine a little bit of Heaven's light into this dark Hell that we've made out of a broken world through our sins.
And so I write this blog: a blog about a blind person trying to open his eyes, trying to find clarity and have Christ's vision, and trying to lead the church that he perceives to have become so blind to do the same. It may be offensive; it may step on toes. But if it challenges you to grow, then it's worth it. It may sound at times like I'm boasting in myself, but let me assure you up front that I think I am the sinner of sinners, I am unworthy to even be a Christian, so any good that I may do does not come from me but from the God I serve; so praise His name, not mine.
Enjoy.
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