When I thought about what to write next...I wanted to post something happy. As the last post was not so easy. So...I begin by telling you about Casa Alba. It is not the White House in America, not even close.Everyone knows it and basically stays away from it.
I have many pictures of the building, it is literaly a mess, like the lives inside of it. It is a five story building that has 8 families on each floor. The rooms, I mean the house they live in, well maybe 10x12 and a shared toilet and shower on each floor. You may ask, where is the kitchen? In the hallway. How many people live in each house. Depends on how many people they have in their family. All legitimate questions I asked myself!
Really, the building is ugly, the trash on the ground is terrible, people spit on each other out of their windows as a joke. Why? I don't know! But I do know this...In all the ugliness you have people inside who's lives are just as messy as the building!
When I first came to Casa Alba I only looked at the shell of the building and didn't not see the possibility of it transforming. After 3 week I see the possibilities for change, I see what God can do. It is from the inside out...When we begin on the inside and invision the possibilities for these lives, it really is endless! Eighty rooms and at least 500 people whose lives can be transformed with the love of Christ.
When I open the eyes of my heart I don't see the dirt, the filth and ugliness. I only see the beautiful faces shown above in the pictures. Faces that are loved just the same as you and I. Clean or dirty, rich or poor, fat or skinny, ugly or beautiful we all can enter the Kingdom of God. How? Just as we are! He loves us all the same.
16"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
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I love that picture of the little girl in the orange. What a blessing it must be to work with these children and the adults.
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