With no Words....

how do you describe evil? i have no real words for it....can you encapsulate it? is it something you can see that is tangible? how do you describe a spirit of evil that spreads depravity over a people group like a thick layer of smoke?

as i stepped off the plane in Guatemala i felt the presence of evil. it was almost tangible, similar to the feeling of humidity in the air. a sucking sensation that teeters on the brink of something that threatens your core.....many times throughout our trip the same sensation swept over me... the apathy for the same, the unapologetic ways that have always been....the line blurred by depravity. the fall of man played out in a society riddled with blatant lawlessness. i look around at the people and wonder at what point does depravity become your clothing? your garment worn like a shield to combat the truth...

i saw people who had their innocence stolen from them, not once but over and over...

i saw a society that had no regulations, no rules that were followed, no measure for morality....

i saw a pit that satan has had dominion over......

but then,

i see a hope shining through like a burst of light from our Creator

a love that is unexplainable, a regeneration of His likeness that is unimaginable...

a beauty from ashes

a restoration of innocence to brokenness

a call to wake a sleeping people and respond like never before...