{"id":6604,"date":"2013-09-24T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2013-09-23T22:18:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T05:18:55","slug":"post-guatemala-rolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2013\/09\/post-guatemala-rolling\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Guatemala Rolling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Since I got home from Guatemala, I\u2019ve felt like this:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/TqbTEw1129M<\/a>\n

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I\u2019m not really sure why. It\u2019s not like I\u2019ve been an emotional wreck. I\u2019ve just felt\u2026like I\u2019m moving too fast and my brain can\u2019t catch up.<\/p>\n

Last Thursday morning, August complained about the milk in his cereal and then poured it into the sink untouched. So, of course, I followed him to the bathroom where he was brushing his teeth and proceeded to cry fat tears about how I SPENT THE PAST WEEK WITH REAL KIDS WHO DON\u2019T HAVE ENOUGH FOOD. AND ALL I WANT IS FOR YOU TO BE THANKFUL.<\/p>\n

Then I took some deep breaths and remembered that my son is five years old. He doesn\u2019t need my tearful lectures in the bathroom about why his milk tastes just fine and he should finish his cereal. But my tearful lecture was all I had to give him.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m doing all the regular things. Washing clothes and pulling them out and imagining the women with their arms deep in the shared community washing bin in the center of their towns scrubbing and scrubbing, their hands raw and red. I think of their kids playing in the dirt around them.<\/p>\n

I fold clothes and I think about poverty.<\/p>\n

I know this is how it goes. I know it takes time to process a trip like this, no matter how many times you\u2019ve experienced the reality of poverty. You still slide your knife into the onion and remember how those mamas cooked in that hot, tiny room where the flies landed on their children. You remember how they were learning to feed their children protein. And you ask your kids to eat their meat or they won\u2019t get any dessert.<\/p>\n

And it feels like you\u2019re rolling through this. Faster and faster and opening your eyes to the sun only for gravity to whip your face back to the ground again.<\/p>\n

They are real people<\/em>, you tell yourself, every time you look around at your upper middle class lifestyle, your hands carving slices of excess food, taking out the trash of all that you\u2019ve consumed. Real people<\/em>, you think, so you won\u2019t \u00a0forget.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been back from my time with World Vision in Guatemala for one week now. But if you\u2019d like to see what I wrote about my trip, you can read about Day 1<\/a>, Day 2<\/a>, Day 3<\/a>, and Day 5<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

Also, you can still sponsor a child in Guatemala by clicking this link<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

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