Overwhelming…

When Americans arrive and are confronted with the suffering and pain of a church in Guatemala, they are faced with death and each will react in order to preserve their lives.

Americans are so analytical and experiences here cannot be quickly understood, explained, sorted out and filed away neatly. It’s messy. Americans respond by trying to figure out why or how to fix so they can move on. (Like our baptisms—move beyond… when frankly we begin each day as the baptized, punto.)

Face to face with people dying – maybe not physically for in many ways it is worse to kill the spirit, to destroy the faith. Many people die at 18 and are buried at 80.

It’s overwhelming for them and they do not want to accept it… death/ resurrection and the incarnation.