Nothing but Everything and Everything but Nothing!

Written by James Thomas | 30 July 2006

Toilet paper, flushing toilets, doors to enter your home, paved roads, electricity, choice of shoes and clothing to wear, bicycles, balls, TV, computers and hand held video games and the newest "iphone"!  Do you ever stop to think about the simple things you have in your life that you take for granted? This mission trip made me see how having "Nothing but Everything and Everything but Nothing" at the same time applies to our daily lives.

It rained the first night we arrived in Mexico.  Many of us woke up with two inches of water on the floor of our rooms.  Our departure was delayed a few hours but we still made way to our destination, El Eden.  The travel was slow because the rain had caused severe flooding.  You could see at points where the water covered 2/3rds of the tires on the truck in front of us.  The last mile of our journey to the Feed My Lambs El Eden school was down a dirt road and because of the heavy rains everything was flooded and the mud was the deepest I had ever had to go through.  The dwellings (homes as we call them) along the way were so eye catching and not because of beauty.  Many did not have doors so a curtain or cloth covered the entrance and many had put together pieces of wood mixed with cinder blocks to make walls.  Roofs were made from what ever was available from large pieces of plastic to wood, to what I thought looked like tin, all fashioned together to make a roof.

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