Hello fellow travelers!
I always feel like I take you along with me. Currently we are high above the clouds, flying on the second leg of our journey – from Chicago to Miami. Then our last leg will take us to La Paz, Bolivia! A new country, a new continent.
This is a Women of Vision trip to visit our micro finance projects in an ADP called Colomi. We will also be learning about the Channels of Hope program, for Gender Equality. More on that later. And of course, the usual highlight of visiting sponsored children. I have a girl here that I am so anxious to meet.
We will arrive in La Paz at 6 am Saturday morning and hit the ground running. As we have comparatively few days in Bolivia, we decided to tack on two days of sightseeing first. So after we deplane and get through whatever hurdles they throw at us at the airport, we will head out of town to Lake Titicaca – (say that a couple of times without laughing!). We don’t quite know what to expect as far as weather (it was snowing yesterday!) or how the altitude will hit us. We left Portland at pretty much sea level and will land at 12,000 feet. La Paz is the highest capitol city in the world. Fun! Praise the Lord for altitude meds.
My personal hopes and prayers for this trip are to be used of God – to encourage, to learn, to serve, to have eyes to see God in those I meet and a heart open to their lives. I leave behind a busy life at home right now – and my precious family with so many of them gearing up for fall. And then there’s that wedding. And as I hold them all in my heart and prayers, my prayer is to be present here, for this time. The opportunity is so be Savored.
Already God has shown up specifically in getting help for my iPad – yes, that is totally petty considering the large issues we are facing. However, I write on it, have music and pictures to share and so on. When I went to put it into airplane mode this morning, a blank screen stared back at me. Nothing I tried worked so I started to make peace with the fact that I might not have it for the trip. When we landed in Chicago, I sought out a shop that deals with the usual flight related tech stuff and this wonderful young lady took an interest and actually got it working!! I was so grateful that she got a hug. She even cleaned the screen for me. The only thing she asked was that I write a comment to her boss, so of course I did with fulsome praise and gratitude.
Off to Miami soon.
Thank you for going with me.