Sometimes you don’t know what to expect just hanging out with an Ecuadorian family. Sometimes you don’t know what to expect as you just live as a missionary. This one was probably a little bit of both.
I had just finished re-reading a blog post I wrote last year about Josué. The point of the whole thing was God’s love and grace. I had literally just closed the window with my blog when Lourdes waslked into the office and said to me in Spanish “Danny, what is Grace?” Miguel and I both gave answers ranging from “Forgiveness when we don’t deserve it,” to explainations like “It’s the will of God, not something we have to ask for.”
I think the question took us both by surprise and we had to think (especially as I was trying to answer in Spanish… and I try very hard not to have to speak Spanish before 10:00am). But even though she asked us in her preparations for her devotional later, I thought it was a great little question to keep thinking about throughout the day. Gina told us last week about a realization a non-Christian she met on her most recent plane ride helped her have. It was that part of doing God’s will is not being so cuaght up in our own busiwork (even as missionaries) that we don’t pay attention to how He wants us to serve Him. In the same way, I think that as we are totally dependant upon God’s Grace, we need to acknowledge that in our thoughts and lives, and whatever adventures today holds with the Familia Inapanta Flores, I’ll be thinking about Lourdes’ question.
