Honduras Update January 19th 2012

Hello Everyone! Its been a great past couple of days! We've been focusing on nature this week in VAP, like I mentioned in the last blog. Yesterday we talked about animals and everyone made their own animal masks out of paper plates. They enjoyed that, so much in fact that they made 2 or 3. I made a elephant and a crocodile and for never being very good at art, I'd say they are pretty good. It has been awesome hanging out with Edith again from last year. She has been constantly hanging on my arm and following me around. She keeps me constantly smiling the whole afternoon. I try to concentrate throughout out the days on what God might be trying to teach me, and I felt like today it was the crazy amount of love that He has for everyone. I look around the room of kids, and especially at Edith, I feel what I think is something like a fatherly love that a dad feels for his kids. I just fill up with joy when I see them smile and laugh, and the more that Edith or Brendi grabs on my arm, the more that joy increases. Now that love is only a fraction of the unimaginable, crazy love that God has for us. I think that the joy I feel when one of the kids stretches up his hands towards me, wanting to be picked up, is what God feels when we even partially grasp our desperate need for him, and like a child, reach up to him, knowing we cannot do it on our own. And that joy goes both ways, when we, with childlike humility, run to God with open arms, trusting Him in everything, we find more joy than the world could ever offer.
Matthew 18:1-4 Romans 8:35-39

It has been an awesome last couple of days. I am extremely thankful for what God has shown me and for your constant prayers,
Benjamin Worley