We walked shack to shack, home to home through the village of El Rosario handing out Crisis Care Kits to each one, praying for each family and inviting them to see the Jesus Film in just a few hours. The pastor of the little Nazarene church there was passionate. She was on a mission to get to as many houses and pray with as many people as possible. We watched as one woman placed her hand two and a half feet up the side of her house designating how high the water was from Hurricane Sandy.
We saw poverty, abject poverty.
But that's not what struck you as we walked door to door. What struck you was the happiness of the people. With literally next to nothing to their name they were extremely happy, gracious, and friendly. The normal response in that situation is to feel bad, and we did, but not for them - for us. We felt bad that we can be so unhappy and ungrateful for what we have, and we have so much of it.
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