Two Turtle Doves

The last month has gone by so fast.  We spent some time moving our things (yet again) to an apartment on the 2nd floor...its a little bigger and gives us a little more privacy...oh yeah, and it has a balcony which is great for just about everything balconies are great for!

There are 2 pigeons that sit on the rafter that supports the roof over our balcony...one is black and one is white.  They are there religiously every single day...in fact, it is where they live, just sitting on that rafter.  Sometimes they get scared and fly away for a little but they come back within minutes, and at night they just sleep next to each other like best buds.

Eva and I were thinking (ok maybe this will sound a little extreme/over the top symbolic/weird) but those 2 pigeons are kind of representative of us right now.  They live in a 'borrowed' living space.  If something were to happen where that rafter is right now, they would be homeless.  They only have each other.  At the end of the day, whatever decisions they make they have to live and die by, but they always have the other one to sleep next to for warmth and comfort.  They seem content.

We have been wrestling with what we are supposed to be doing right now...how can we be productive...lets worry about money, lets worry about jobs, lets worry about (fill in the blank)...just like how we are taught to think/worry.  But shouldn't we just be content...shouldn't we be happy and thankful for our little apartment, food we can still afford to buy, and the support of friends and family that we have.  We are finding our contentedness among the confusion of which direction to go.

The other week we reconnected with a friend that I worked with on a trip to El Salvador and Nicaragua over 2 years ago.  He still has a strong desire to help the people of his country, especially in the area where we built a lunchroom for a small school in the mountains of Rio Blanco, Nicaragua.  He also has good connections in the government (who provided 2 trucks for free when we needed to haul concrete block and other construction materials up to the mountains on that trip two years ago).

So Eva and I have been looking and praying for a way to start working to help the poor of Nicaragua while we are here.  We don't have anything concrete but at least our heads have been spinning with ideas and prayers and thoughts for possibilities to work on while we are here.  And who knows...could there be something for the future in these small thoughts...?

We contacted a medical friend who was on that trip I mentioned before and he is pondering the idea of coming down soon to bring some medical supplies and do a small clinic work with us in some areas.  Again, nothing is concrete but we are excited about these small interactions and ideas that have been occurring.

All I know is that we want to be content...we don't want to worry ourselves with anything that is out of our hands...and we want to be happy with what is in front of us everyday...just like those two crazy pigeons!