faith is a life journey
As Rachael and Matt put it- we left Mississippi on Friday to head home but a piece of our hearts are there. And we took a little of the soul, the heart of Mississippi back with us.
Everything I knew, all my boundaries were tested and pushed. I sat listening to the jobs and I thought I was screwed. Between gutting houses and carpentry stuff, I have no skills. and weeding had the whole bug issue. But I gutted a house. I helped carry off a tree that we cut down. I carried lumber with cockroaches and water bugs and beetles and grasshoppers and black widows and mice living under it. I stepped so far out of my comfort zone I was in a whole different place altogether.
And even though my arms are all cut up and my foot is sliced open and I found a cockroach under my pillow and fire ants in my cot which kept collapsing and I sweat through both my tank top and my tee shirt every single day and I smelled and I was sore- it was worth it. I put everything. blood. sweat. tears. and my heart and soul. into this. and I got so much back.
And it's something I'll never forget.
Mississippi 2006. out in The Kill. Hancock County.
Barbara and Charles. Sherry. Father Jack. Marilyn. Coach and Peg. Joseph. The neighbor and her daughter. Nick. Ludym. Nicole. Trish. Jamison. Bryce. Russ. Chris.
my family- take care and rejoice the the Lord always. and again we say rejoice. alleluia!
Everything I knew, all my boundaries were tested and pushed. I sat listening to the jobs and I thought I was screwed. Between gutting houses and carpentry stuff, I have no skills. and weeding had the whole bug issue. But I gutted a house. I helped carry off a tree that we cut down. I carried lumber with cockroaches and water bugs and beetles and grasshoppers and black widows and mice living under it. I stepped so far out of my comfort zone I was in a whole different place altogether.
And even though my arms are all cut up and my foot is sliced open and I found a cockroach under my pillow and fire ants in my cot which kept collapsing and I sweat through both my tank top and my tee shirt every single day and I smelled and I was sore- it was worth it. I put everything. blood. sweat. tears. and my heart and soul. into this. and I got so much back.
And it's something I'll never forget.
Mississippi 2006. out in The Kill. Hancock County.
Barbara and Charles. Sherry. Father Jack. Marilyn. Coach and Peg. Joseph. The neighbor and her daughter. Nick. Ludym. Nicole. Trish. Jamison. Bryce. Russ. Chris.
my family- take care and rejoice the the Lord always. and again we say rejoice. alleluia!