After the Great Flood

Magdalena doesn't handle a lot of water well. Because we are desert and most of the people in this town have lived their lives in the desert, torrents of rain can almost shut everything down. There is no good drainage system and as seen from Joan's post, the rain results in excessive amounts of water in the streets.



The day after the storm, the sun came out, shone brightly and dried the earth once again. Fede and Ben were apparently practicing how to properly use an umbrella before the next storm.

Perspectives

The girls constantly teach me about considering and loving other people. On Sunday evening, I was talking with the girls and said, "Wasn't that an awesome storm?!" (I get very excited about rain because of our lack of it.) Lupita looked at me and obviously upset said, "How can you be excited about a rain like that? Did you not think about the people that live by the river? Some of them had to have lost their houses and they are already so poor!"

As much as I don't like to be called out by an 11-year old, I was thankful for her view on the world to prompt me to consider life in someone else's shoes.

1 Corinthians 1:27-28