The circumference of the Earth may be roughly 25-million miles, but it’s amazing when we are reminded what a small world we truly live in.
Today we ate a late lunch in a town roughly halfway between Oaxaca City and Juxtlahuaca. The Restaurante Yosocuta specializes in pescado (fish) dishes with fish that are caught in the lake directly behind it.
After we ordered our drinks and meal, Page is chatting with the group when she hears a faintly familiar voice saying “Doctora Griffin.” She turns and is suddenly face to face with Dominga Cruz, a patient of hers at the Salud Medical Clinic in Woodburn, and her son, Aden.
Both were in this town visiting her husband’s family. Dominga lives in Silverton and Aden attends Eugene Field School. I got a shy, Aden to say hi to his teacher, Heidi (sorry, I didn’t get her last name) and some classmates.
It’s amazing when God reminds us of the impact we can make on those around us and brings us together.
As you may have guessed, we are arrived in Juxtlahuaca following a harrowing climb up El Diablo, better known as The Devil’s Spine. The road wound up a large mountain as we slowly climbed, avoiding crater sized potholes along the way. As with any road, single lane or otherwise, cars, busses and other traffic would take any chance they could to pass us, seemingly mindless of the bus wreckage near the bottom of the mountain. There were no skeletons waving at us, but there were plenty of crosses and makeshift memorials along the road.
Along the way, we stopped at a 16th century cathedral in the mountains. It was being restored by the government and had the most amazing paintings. I am awestruck by the passion artists of that era had and how beautiful the art is. I took an art history class and slides can never do justice to the true beauty of this work.
I’ll keep this short and sweet in the hopes I may be able to get some food and rest in order to prepare for the clinics we will hold tomorrow through Saturday. God has been very gracious to us in regards to health and safety. Please continue to pray that he further blesses this mission and the people we will serve.
We miss you all and look forward to sharing with you in the coming days.
God bless,
Sheldon
5 comments:
I'm so glad you guys made it there safe! Maddy and I have prayed for rest for your entire team tonight among other things. Rest well!
For those of you posting comments, I sent Sheldon all the comments made so far on this blog by email this evening so hopefully he can find a way to share them with your families.
Amazing that Page ran into a patient in Oaxaca. What a cool thing for the patient to see her doctora near where she lives helping the people there.
We've been treated well by Karen Ochoa providing us dinner including chocolate chip cookies. Those were what Katie and Carlos made her thank you cards for.
That was what Page's mom would call a "divine appointment" that happened yesterday. Will print out the story to give to Mimi when she helps to watch Carlos for me today at the Baby Boutique.
Katie wanted to be sure that the 7.3 earthquake that I showed her video of this morning wasn't near where Mommy is. Assured her it isn't. My relatives in the Bahamas have lots of workers from Haiti and they're concerned because they haven't been able to get in touch with their families yet.
Our little family was heart broken to have missed the phone call tonight! We are doing fine. We pray for the team and the people you are ministering to every time we want to miss Jess. Needless to say we are praying often! Me especially!
From Jaimey: Sophie is doing fine and we love all of the presents. I miss you a lot! We wore crazy socks for AWANA crazy sock night. I wish you could have seen them. Love Jaimey
From Will: I love you and I miss you. I like the presents you are giving me. I hope you are having a good time in Mexico and I am doing my chores every day. We really really miss you and we pray for you a lot.
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