Kierkegaard and Nicaragua

Entry By: Jonathan E Reyes

I am the type to have a, "the usual" spot when it comes to reading, and I am at one of them right now and I was/am thinking of the Nicaragua trip tomorrow. Personally, it's been an interesting ride from the start (I won't go into that...because frankly I don't want to :) ). But, what I can tell you is that faith has been a huge part of it.

We are (as you may know) still short 4,000 dollars. That is a lot of money, yet, by faith it is nothing. Faith is what I have and will hold onto while I am over in Nicaragua with my team.

"He believed on the strength of the absurd," Kierkegaard writes concerning the faith of Abraham when asked by God to go and sacrifice Isaac. Abraham believed in the impossible, that despite killing his son, in the end he would receive Isaac, not loss him.

The faith and belief in the absurd, the impossible is what I pray for my team. That by faith we go and give humanitarian aide to the people of Nicaragua. That by faith we survive the mosquitoes and avoid disease.

For what we align ourselves is what we get, at least that is what I believe anyway. I ask that those who pray for us will have faith in God to bring the impossible. For by having faith in the impossible; the impossible is what we get.