Living Rarefied

re-entry to the matrix, I will be posting a few of my responses to my time in El Salvador as I process them.

We live in a world we don't know.  We live in a world that is for the most part, clouded from reality.  I just spent a week with 28 people who are now friends in El Salvador and experienced some powerful moments. These moments may happen here, but most of the time we are too busy to notice or aren't ready to receive them.

I didn't interact with many children this week, only Manuel at our sponsorship party (more on that later).  But at our worksite because of the lack of kids my eyes were opened to some special things.  Our head construction guy, the master builder Antonio (who was our master builder 2 years ago) had his son working alongside him.  Benedicto was 28.  Seeing these two work together as 1 was amazing.  Antonio would teach Benedicto things and Benedicto would also show his dad a thing or 2.  At the end of the days we spent with them, I took 2 poloroids of the 2 of them.  One for each.  The reaction that followed was something I can't even try to write about.  They kept putting their picture, which was the same in front of each other pointing at things and smiles and joy peeked through 2 fairly serious men.  As we walked away they continued to look at them and I could feel the presence of the moment as I walked back to our bus.

A lot of times we assume its always gonna be the father that teaches the son.  I learned that for it to be a true relationship, this needs to be a 2-way street.  Otherwise the son is nothing other than a protege, a student of the father.

I am trying to figure out what this looks like in my life with my dad.  I am thankful for our relationship and hope that I am teaching him a thing or 2.  Also trying to figure out how that works in my relationship with the Heavenly Father.  Not that I can teach him anything, but that I am interacting and loving as if I am teaching him.

Ethan Feeling