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The specifics of the situation aren’t important beyond the fact that I needed to send money down to the girl in Nicaragua who I’ve been supporting through school and college for seven years. Normally, other channels are used but due to the situation, I was forced to use Western Union. Western Union is expensive. It …

I wondered how I could keep going. I caught myself thinking about life and the situations and crises of faith I’m currently struggling with. I can’t make it another 30 years like this, I thought. I don’t have the faith, the strength, the hope, the spiritual stamina, the answers, the understanding, the self-control… I couldn’t …

Heroes from the west We don’t know you, we know best This is not a test You treat me like I’m blind – Jars of Clay, “Light Gives Heat“ I don’t think I’m going to go to Nicaragua this year. I’m feeling nothing. The insights I may have grasped at in all the previous years …

The trips I’ve taken to Nicaragua have helped me understand the danger of guilt giving. More often than I’d care to admit have we created horrendous situations because we didn’t have the heart to say “no” to each and every request that came our way. I should always give, but it might not be in …

::From my Nicaragua 2009 trip.:: We refer to it as a fort, but I guess, whenever we’re told about it by our Nicaraguan friends, it comes out as theeprison that it was. Its stories are those of awful torture done by the Contras to the Sandinistas. Admittedly, I don’t want to think about it. It’s …