You will impact people, you’ll touch peoples live. You’ll be an hour for some, a week, months, or years for others. And for a few you will be in their veins. You’ll touch them in a way that never releases them. You will touch people’s lives and people will touch yours… And somewhere along the way it will be at the same time. Two brave souls. Leaping and surrendering together. Leading up to today, I was able to enjoy fellowship with the couple who has touched my soul forever. A woman named Sabina and her husband Angel. She is 86 and he is 88. She is the one I wrote about yesterday that stands not even 5 feet tall with the most precious little angelic face. We painted their house earlier in the week, and from that second she has held a special place in my heart. She would just stare at me and smile. I didn’t know what she was thinking, but I felt as if we were riding the same wave lengths. She is a beautiful soul who defines the term “selfless.” Ceasar, Hannah, and I went today to take her and her husband the audio bible that we had promised her. They were so happy to see us. Her house stands off the ground on almost 2×4’s and consists of one room. The bed on one side with a little mermaid blanket for covers, and a burner and wood table on the other side for their kitchen separated by a sheet. They had one dresser type piece that held their personal pieces. As we were sitting there talking, she brought a plate of fresh fried plantains which is a staple here and glasses of fresh fruit juice for each of us. They tell us not to drink or eat anything here from people, but we could not turn down the gesture. This couple has nothing, and when I say nothing, I mean completely barren. We sat there for the next couple of hours and listened and talked. Ceasar taught them how to use the bible reader. This part was incredible. She kept calling it a “cell phone.” Some things that are so simple to us are so special to them. He handed her the headphones and taught her how to put them in their ears. They had never seen nor used headphones. Her husband put them in and just sat there and listened to the bible with no intentions of stopping. This couple cannot read or write. And to my disbelief this is the first time they have ever heard the “Bible.” They have never had one because they could not read it. God overwhelmed my soul. I wanted to speak at that point, but all I could do was sit back with tears in my eyes and take all of God’s glory in at that very moment. To see this woman’s smile and this man’s urge to learn at almost 90 years old taught me so much. It’s never too late, no matter what. Sitting in their house today made me feel so selfish and so spoiled. Things I worry about, and shouldn’t. We discussed Matthew 6:25-34 and how God will always provide, for we need not worry because he has already taken care of it. I was sitting there thinking about all that they had to worry about: their health isn’t good, what they will eat, and where they will get water. My burdens are nothing compared to theirs. Goodness, there is so very much that I take for granted. The simplicity and the beauty of life in general. The material things in life that I don’t even need. These people have nothing, and make do. They understand what life truly is without the material things that sometimes our world makes us think will make us happy. It reminded me of the book of Ecclesiastes and how Solomon explains why material things will never make you rich, only the joy of the Lord. I watched her wash her dishes from a little tiny bucket sitting on her broken wooden plywood table. I watched her prepare one little fish that her and her husband would split for their meal. They had 4 non-matching cups, and only 4 plates to their name. There was no bathroom or shower in their home, nor was there a light. I sat there pondering upon what do they do all day. We have so many distractions in our world, and I wondered how much slower their world is, and what their thoughts consist of compared to ours with the busyness that we flood our lives with. She thanked us so many times for visiting and for the bible. She told us the bible makes her feel at peace. The thing that was shown through all of this was that God is everywhere. God is in America, Ecuador, China, or Poland. He pervades every area that we will ever go with our help as stewards for him. God is in the richest places and the poorest of places. God is God and God is always there and God loves each and every one of us as we are his children. I am so beyond grateful for this sweet couple who opened my eyes to God even more today. They opened my eyes to the true meaning of selfless, and they opened my eyes to see God’s love first hand. They may have never read the Bible, but they sure have a God heart. I hugged them so tight when I left the house today. I don’t know if I will ever see them again, I hope that I do, but I was at peace walking out of that house with the 2 hours of my life that we spent with them that I will never forget. Everything, and I mean everything is a divine plan of God’s. Had we of come back in June, we may have never met this couple to paint their house, which in turn led to today. Had Janette and Carlos of never met and fell in love, this ministry here in Ecuador wouldn’t be alive and strong. Had Amy had not of sat in my chair that day that she did in the salon, I wouldn’t be here in Ecuador on a trip that would change my life forevermore. I love seeing God’s divine plan unfolding. It never ceases to amaze me at how his hands are intricately immersed throughout every second of my life for his greater good. Has this week hurt at points? More than I can explain. I’ve put people in my heart who I don’t know if I will ever get to see or hug again. I have seen so many poverty stricken areas that I know I can’t fix like I want to. I see people hurting, and I know there is nothing I can do. And for those of you who know me, that absolutely kills me because I am a fixer. I want to make it all better. And sometimes I don’t know my purpose here, and I don’t know God’s plan for me, but I know that I have one. And I know I may never see it or know it. But I trust him, and I trust in what he is doing in the lives of these people and what he is doing in my life. Thank you Lord for choosing me to love on these people of Bolivar.