May 29, 2007
Queridos amigos,
Happy summer! I hope and pray that this email finds you well. As many of you already know, this summer I'll be spending eight weeks in rural Honduras (check it out on google earth !) serving at an orphanage called the Farm of the Child (Finca del Niño, for those of you who speak Spanish!) My amazing site-partner-in-crime, Cassidy, and I will be filling in for long-term volunteers taking summer vacations by teaching at the school on site, hanging out with the Finca kids, and living in community with the other vols. The Finca, in addition to being literally right on the coast of the Caribbean :), is an amazing faith community, and I look forward to being immersed in the four pillars of life: community, service, simple living and spirituality. Although I'm sure I can't anticipate the adventures that await us, I expect that our summer will be both extremely challenging and immensely blessed.
Our journey begins this Thursday as we attempt to pack our lives into rolling duffel bags and head into the unknown. Somewhere sandwiched between long, flowing skirts and malaria pills, my Spanish-English dictionary and Chaco sandals… I carry with me a heart full of joy yet uncertain of what the days and weeks to come may hold. I hope to keep each of you up to date on our adventures through weekly(ish) emails… if you'd rather not hear from me, though, please don't hesitate to ask me to remove you from my list, delete my emails, or report me as spam. Whatever :)In all seriousness, though, I am grateful for each of you with whom I can share the journey. I would so very much appreciate your prayers… for the entire Finca community, health and safety, the grace to love and sing and dance and walk daily in the light of our wonderful God :)
Please keep me updated on your own adventures this summer… I would love to hear from you. Know that you each are on my heart and in my prayers as well. How blessed I am to have you in my life!
May your song be loud, may it be clear, may it be long and may God bless you.
Un abrazo fuertisimo,
Erin
"And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you, about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" – Donald Miller in Through Painted Deserts
ps: Some of you had asked for my summer mailing address. Just in case you want to write a real letter, you can reach me at:
Erin Ramsey
c/o Finca del Niño
Apartado Postal 110
Trujillo, Colón
Honduras, Central America
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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