Mama Bearable

My body must have needed the rest because I slept in until Lucia's alarm went off at 6:45AM, I lazed around in the morning and barely made it to breakfast after my morning stretch routine. Nachos for breakfast, what a great way to start the day!  We were then rushed to the van where we said a quick prayer, jumped in and began our trek to the jobsite. The weather was much more favorable which meant way more traffic on the roads, they had been empty just the day before. The trek that had taken and hour and a half yesterday took closer to 2. My motion sickness was in full gear but thankfully I was able to keep the nachos I had for breakfast down. As we were traveling, roadsides that had been barren not a day before, were filled with merchants pedaling their wares. Bags of chips, tamales, tacos, salsas, freshly picked coconuts, etc were all an option if you were feeling peckish.  The fact that these people can do so much with so little is humbling, and makes me ponder the excess I...

Check out the video I put together of the trip:  Baja Missions Trip 2023 Day Break I fell asleep last night to a chorus of feral street dogs, rooster's crowing at the oddest times, and the sound of rain pouring off the roof. But that didn't matter, with yesterday's travel day in the rear view I was ready to lay my head and get some much needed rest. It didn't matter the chorus going on outside or that the room lights were still on, I was out like a light. I awoke several times in the night to the aforementioned noise, made my way to the bathroom and back to bed again. I awoke for the final time unable to force myself back to sleep and mustered the strength to get out of bed and start my day at 4:30AM local time. If I was at home I would already be at work, so my body wouldn't let me rest any longer.  I find it helpful when traveling to try and keep some of the same rhythms, this helps ground my body in the present and keeps my shoulders from merging with my neck. Th...

Hello there! If you are reading this it probably means that you had some vested interested in my trip to Baja Mexico, whether that be as a prayer or a financial partner. Both of those roles played such a vital role in getting and sustaining the trip to Mexico this year. To put the trip to Mexico in a few words, eye opening, life changing, and spiritually challenging.  I was trying to figure out how to inform all the people who were a part of my sending team, and there is so much to say that a short 1-2 page update wouldn't be able to do justice to all the things this trip cultivated in me, and in the lives of the team I traveled with. So here's what I'm going to do. While I was on the trip I journaled faithfully about the daily activities that we had, and there are a few reasons why I did. One so I could remember all that God has done, two a way for me to process how I was affected throughout the day, and thirdly so I could come home and share with you all this life changin...