Today was rather difficult for me. I am really struggling with the amount of people out here. I know that we are all pilgrims sharing this experience and that I am no better than anyone else, but I cannot help but feel bitter when I can’t brush my teeth in the mornings because of the crowd of women doing their makeup and when platinum blonde 60 year olds with bedazzled pink pants walk in to cafes and don’t even try to speak Spanish to the workers. I feel like such an asshole for my immediate judgements, especially compared to Paul who just respects them for coming out here and doing it in the first place. This really probably says a lot about my character, meaning that I have a lot more reflecting to do. Better to look inwards than to just stew at having no more chances of solitude and judge people based on their appearances. We will be in Santiago in 3 days, but there is still much work to be done.
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Amber – Tuesday
03 May
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Amber consider this from the Bible; Romans 2:1:
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
Please give it deep thought and I promise it will help humble your internal attitude about others. I know that you are trying so hard to do this and I also know that is immensely difficult not to think negatively or pass judgement on another. Amber, give yourself a break here and there. We are human after all and we all share these burdens of life. One person has this burden to carry, another person a different burden to carry. Or as Paul would describe, a thorn in is flesh.
2 Corinthians 12:1-10 (Paul’s Vision and His Thorn)
1I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I love you more than I can express!