taken in 2007 from one of the translator couples that we support.
I don't live on the coast. It takes me several hours of flying to get to a place like this... but when I visit... ooooooh it's pretty.
This is evidence that sometimes, when God calls people to missions, it's not always to a dreadfully horrid place. Sometimes, He calls us to serve in some very pretty places.
One quote from another translator couple (friends) of ours.... "We retired from being architects at a young age and said 'God we'll go wherever you want' and He sent us to paradise, so we said 'wow, are you sure God? Okay we won't argue.'
Of course, living here has it's other challenges. In fact so many challenges that daily I go outside and look around and breath in the air and say
"yes, thanks God, for reminding me."
I think it would be near impossible to serve in a place I didn't find beautiful, because you see such ugliness, that my eyes need the medicine that is the beauty of this terrain.
