It’s time to be a bit brutally honest, take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop hiding behind the polite, British ‘everything is fine’ brave face. Because sometimes life is just hard.My recent experience of transition back into life in Guatemala hit me like a tone of bricks and I was not ready for it.I knew that there would be culture shock, there always is. There was even reverse culture shock when I was in the UK after being gone for …
(Written for ‘The Call’ CMS) I’m frequently asked, “What do you enjoy most about your work?” The answer is always the same: relationships with the people I serve and seeing their lives transformed. Often we focus on numbers but some impact cannot be counted. Relationship and transformation are not easily measurable, but they are what God is all about and are what he has been doing in me and through me in Guatemala. When I arrived in Guatemala I had …
During my last few months in Guatemala the lockdown ended, and restrictions began to lift allowing for certain activities to resume, for glimpses of “normality” to return. Through the lockdown God had started some great works in me. Of course, it was not all a breeze, but I took the time to really lean into God and He kept on showing up; revealing more of His love and grace. I was glad to have simply survived the lockdown but even …