the vision

We were recently talking to one of the pastors who came over here to teach. We were talking about life here and everything else. He asked us, “is it hard to keep the vision in sight when you are this close?” or something similar. Wow. Never thought of it that way. But that is exactly it. It is extremely difficult to be the one on the ground seeing everything. See how things work…or don’t. And then having to be the one who explains that it doesn’t and why. Being perceived as the negative one because we can see that parts of the vision won’t or just can’t work. We get so absorbed in the day to day issues, that we don’t get to see the grander vision of what is going on. Maybe (hopefully) that is because we are the only ones (Americans) here right now. Once Paul and Lori come hopefully we will all be able to remind ourselves of why we are here.