We visited a small community down the mountain in the heat of the lowlands today. We had to use the home of one of the families in the community because the people did not have a community center or even a school. It is so humbling to enter the peoples homes and see how they live. More than this though, I am humbled to see how happy they are. They have so little by way of material resources that we can't seem to live without and yet their lives are filled with other things. They place so much emphasis on family, work, relationships, their land. It is such a great reminder that where our focus is we will find our desires. I am reminded of a quote by Henry David Thoreau,"our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify!"
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