"You are a mist..." Js. 4:13-17

Aaron teaching away!  Bryan Cole next to him.  Aaron used to pour into Bryan through camp experiences here.  Bryan is back on our staff, and Aaron and Christine and the kids are our new team leaders and will arrive on the ground in Quito in June of 2014. 

Mist around the hills just to the North of Quito, rainforest in Ecuador. 

So fun to have Aaron Passmore here visiting last week.  This was the title of his talk on Wednesday night at the Semester Abroad Chapel time.  Each week we gather as staff and students to have dinner together, and worship together through sharing a meal,  song, teaching, and prayer.  It is a really a wonderful time to see the students interacting with each other and I just love being part of their worship together.  These last weeks, this is the only time in the week that they see each other all together.  They have been in homestays with Ecuadorian families, all over the city, and are down to having just a few days left before they return to the apartments.  They actually live around the corner from us.  The boys are a street above us, and the girls live just down the block from us. 

enjoying the beauty of Puerto Lago with my dear friend Christy

Anyways, back to having Aaron here.  Some of you know that we have known Aaron since he was in 6th grade.  He has been loved by our family over 21 years.  He now is married to a wonderful woman, Christine, and has two great kids, Zeke, and Damarice.  They are coming in June to be our new team leader.  So Aaron was down checking in with the team, visiting, encouraging, listening, and sharing his heart.  It filled my heart with such joy to watch him challenge the students from God's word and his life and ministry.  God seldom lifts back the curtain and allows such holy moments this side of heaven, but it was one of those for me.  I almost wept with joy, however, I did restrain myself!  His challenge was far more than for students though, God struck my heart in a powerful way, and has had me thinking about these verses in James since Aaron shared them last week.  I awakened again this morning to Quito covered in mist, and then downpour of rain, so the reflecting and praying continues.
 What about you?  What are you wrapping your life around?  What are you allowing to wrap itself around you?  Is it Mist?  or something more substantial?  Hmmmmmm.