Today is a travel day, so we are up very early. We have to catch the bus at 3:30 a.m. From Antigua to Guatemala City to Copan Ruins to San Pedro Sula to Tegucigalpa–they say it is 11 hours on the bus; it all adds up to about 14 hours. On trips such as this, a travel day a time to reflect. We have been gone from the U.S. for 16 days. It is incredible to think how much has been packed into those days! But more incredible is to think about where God has been and what God has done during those days.
God is at work in our world in ways we cannot know and do not see. As we respond to him, he invites us to join him in a work that was in progress long before we arrived on the scene. He is at work while we are at rest. He is preparing us and preparing those whose paths we cross for encounters capable of spreading his word and influence. He is building bridges and preparing hearts. He is using us even as he changes us.
I pray that we might be instruments in his hand, to do his will wherever he leads.