Great and amazing things have happened and are happening, but even greater things are yet to come. What is our purpose? What is our destiny? I was talking with a friend of mine about Heaven. About eternity and what will it be like. For every moment spent with God, there is something new and fresh about His goodness. Every moment for all of eternity, in Heaven, there will be a new revelation of God's love. Wow. God's heart is the final frontier. His goodness, unmeasurable. His power, boundless. His love, inexhaustible.
James Joyce describes eternity as this:
"You have often seen the sand on the seashore. How fine are its tiny grains! And how many of those tiny grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play. Now imagine a mountain of that sand, a million miles high, reaching from the earth to the farthest heavens, and a million miles broad, extending to remotest space, and a million miles in thickness, and imagine such an enormous mass of countless particles of sand multiplied as often as there are leaves in the forest, drops of water in the mighty ocean, feathers on birds, scales on fish, hairs on animals, atoms in the vast expanse of air. And imagine that at the end of every million years a little bird came to that mountain and carried away in its beak a tiny grain of that sand. How many millions upon millions of centuries would pass before that bird had carried away even a square foot of that mountain, how many eons upon eons of ages before it had carried away all. Yet at the end of that immense stretch time not even one instant of eternity could be said to have ended. At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun. And if that mountain rose again after it had been carried all away again grain by grain, and if it so rose and sank as many times as there are stars in the sky, atoms in the air, drops of water in the sea, leaves on the trees, feathers upon birds, scales upon fish, hairs upon animals – at the end of all those innumerable risings and sinkings of that immeasurably vast mountain not even one single instant of eternity could be said to have ended; even then, at the end of such a period, after that eon of time, the mere thought of which makes our very brain reel dizzily, eternity would have scarcely begun.”
And still.... eternity has scarcely begun.
We spent three weeks visiting our supporters, churches, and family asking for sleeping bags. We needed the sleeping bags because at the end of the month, we are traveling with the senior class of Colegio Metodista to Texas! We will spend a week in the hill country out at Camp Eagle. A big THANK YOU all who have helped and are helping to make this possible.
The time is beginning to fly! Our mission team will be gaining two new players! Tony and Heidi are coming to Costa Rica to serve as interns! They will be helping at the Methodist Children's Home and spending time with Kendra and I at the school. Can't wait to welcome them to Costa Rica with a big "BIENVENIDOS".
Awesome things are being done by God, through His people, all over the world. And still, greater things are yet to be done. Lord Jesus, we pray that these 'greater things' would find us. We ask, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, that Your goodness would be made known in all places through the obedience of your people. Thank You for inviting us to participate in the mission of Your will. Amen.
-Spencer, Kendra, and Cowboy Thomas.
