On Monday we went to Arica, Chile, to renew our documents for the remainder of our time here. It´s always fun to go, but I am always glad to return to Tacna. Maybe it´s calmer here, or maybe I´m just used to it now.
What I´m not used to is rain in Tacna! Well actually, any moisture at all! When we returned to the bus terminal last night the weather was COLD and misty. I couldn´t wait to go home and get in bed.
But as we waited for a taxi I noticed a woman sitting in the cold across from me. Her many layers of clothing caused her to appear larger than she was. At her feet were several thermoses. I suppose she was trying to sell tea, but I didn´t see anyone buy from her.
Impatient for a taxi, we walked toward the main street. On the corner were still more women sticking out the cold trying to sell, of all things, fruit on a winter night.
How difficult their lives! I do not know, of course, their individual stories. But I know that those women would not expose themselves to the cold just to make a few cents if it weren´t out of absolute necessity. These women live day to day.
¨Give us this day our daily bread…¨ is a reality I know nothing about.And yet to those living in this way (in which the majority of the world lives), Jesus called them blessed. For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
--Stephanie
*we did not take this picture
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