10:04:35 PM
Today was an interesting day. In the morning we did pretty much the same things as yesterday but with a new group of about 60 high school students. At 11 we all boarded busses to our CI project sites. Today I went to the Navajo Ministries facility.
Navajo Ministries Inc. serves people, primarily the Navajo, in the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado. Since 1953, we have helped to meet the physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs of Navajo families and children. We will continue to build a future for Navajo families through programs which establish self-sufficiency, resilience and Christian family values.
http://www.navajoministries.org/
While there we cleared land using axes, bow saws, and trimmers. The site will eventually have a school built on it. We cut down mainly Russian Olive trees; very hard wood and tough thorns. I ended up cutting myself up pretty badly. I just went crazy with the axe. We had pizza from pizza hut for lunch on site. In the afternoon we headed to the Civic Center to set up the stage for tomorrows show. I’m on of the truck crew leaders operating the lifts on the trucks. In due process I crushed my left pointer finger between two crates and its now turning a lovely purple colour which matches my pinky finger on the same finger. It still really hurts and typing is very frustrating. I still hope I can play the fiddle somehow in the show tomorrow. Michael the music guy was somewhat upset with me for my “carelessness”. Ah well, I’m clumsy, it was bound to happen anyhow. Here is todays proverb that kind of applies to what we are doing in UWP.
A traveller was walking along a beach when he saw a woman scooping up starfish off the sand and tossing them into the waves. Curious, he asked her what she was doing. The woman replied "When the tide goes out it leaves these starfish stranded on the beach. They will dry up and die before the tide comes back in, so I am throwing them back into the sea where they can live."
The traveller then asked her "But this beach is miles long and there are hundreds of stranded starfish, many will die before you reach them - do you really think throwing back a few starfish is really going to make a difference?"
The woman picked up a starfish and looked at it, then she threw it into the waves. "It makes a difference to this one" she said.
A human Knot
Navajo Ministries Site
Yamil and a Llama
We even made the front page of the local paper this morning.
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