The Song in My Heart

Following our weekend at Rockafam, I was inspired to write this song.

It is so far tuneless, so if anyone has ideas for a melody, let me know:

When worry weighs on our shoulders

When discouragement pushes us down

When the bright light of hope falters

Just listen for this sound

A whisper in the flames

The tremors, the disaster

A whisper saying I am here

A cool drink in the desert

The bread of life sustaining

A love that drives out all your fear

When best friends seem to abandon

When rumors cut to your soul

When the loneliness overwhelms the heart

Just remember whose hand you hold

A whisper in the flames

The tremors, the disaster

A whisper saying I am here

A cool drink in the desert

The bread of life sustaining

A love that drives out all your fear

When feeling kind of worthless

Tempted and exhausted

Trying to fill your heart

Ask for His abundance

For His Spirit’s freedom

He’ll give you a brand new start.

Just listen for:

A whisper in the flames

The tremors, the disaster

A whisper saying I am here

A cool drink in the desert

The bread of life sustaining

A love that drives out all your fear

Continuacion

With 21 days of school and 34 days left in Teguc. I felt the need to revisit an old blog post.
In Honduras 1
Only in Honduras 2

You know you're in Honduras when...

*You hear an eagle call as you walk through the grocery store. Don't worry, it's just a way of cheering for the soccer team.
*Cheers erupt throughout the whole mall when a team scores, and everyone stops what they're doing to check the score. You walk through the food court and feel like you're passing through a flash mob where everyone is frozen, mesmerized by the game.
*You can sneak whole restaurant take-out boxes into a movie theater. (F&F5=great movie)
*You can hear the geckos barking (yes, barking) within your walls.
*You open your classroom windows in the morning only to find a bird has decided to perch in the rafters. You don't mind; this is normal.
*Your students would rather play soccer in the blazing sun than go see the new fountain the school put in. NM..your students would rather play soccer, than..pretty much anything.
*Hot day schedule begins, where kids get out an hour earlier because it is so hot.
But on the days you hang laundry out to dry, it pours rain.
*You bond with a Honduran at church through your lack of Spanish skills. But you understood most of the sermon without the translation; though it helped to be seated by someone who's practically bilingual.
*You remember how the first Spanish phrases you began to recognize were:
"levántese" and "y sus pies" and "siéntese" --knowing when to stand and sit in church..haha,
fortunately you can watch people for clues. But watch out for those false-sitters, or pre-empters, who think it's time to sit down after the prayer, but the band still has one more song.

Tomorrow's a field trip to a natural history museum--stay tuned to hear more!