Every night this week, we have taken some time as a group to gather in the backyard and sing worship to God. It's been a great way to relax, refresh, remember who God is and give our love to him. The first night while we were singing, I saw a picture of a map of Central America, and the six of us sitting in a circle in Nicaragua with our faces turned up to God expectantly. Then, from God's perspective, I saw him take an enormous bucket of water and dump it on us while laughing hysterically. It was pretty funny and made me think of how it poured rain here last week. The next night, I saw the same picture right as the song lyric said something about God pouring his love out on us. The night after that I saw the same thing except this time, we had buckets too. As the water drenched us, we caught some of it in buckets and splashed it on the Nicaraguan kids.
I really liked this analogy of our time in Nicaragua. We were together waiting for God's water, and he poured out more than we could ask with abundant joy. It was his water that we also were able to collect and transfer to the kids in playful love.
The next day after our morning activities, I was feeling pretty exhausted, so I stayed in the house while the others went out to the Villa for the afternoon. When they came back, they told me that their job had been to throw water on some of the newly worked on houses, and that they had ended up getting in a water fight with some of the kids who were out there. They told me that they had had buckets and threw the water in them on the kids (and vice versa) to everyone's delight. It was really neat to see how the picture of us throwing water on the kids had come out in reality the next day. Jason in particular had a great time "loving" another guy by chasing him all over the village with a water bottle ;)
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