We've delved into classes since arriving here in El Salvador on Sunday. We just spend four weeks here, but they are four of the most intense weeks of the program; for me, El Salvador has an energy, and electricity about it. In three days our conversations have touched topics from abundance to 'the gift of anguish', corrupt politics to 'integral development', extreme violence to stubborn hope. It's so much, that I'm often unsure where to begin when I sit down to write.
El Salvador is a tiny, chaotic country with an overwhelmingly distressing past and present; and still, I see such obstinate hope in the people that I can't help but be encouraged. In so many, I see a faith that lies not in a God that's bigger than them, beyond them and distant, but in the idea that there is extreme potential for the 'divine within' to manifest itself in the people. And I like that.
"No somos exceisvamente pesimista.
Somos realistas.
Sabemos que hay obstaculos grandes,
Pero no negamos la potencial en la sociedad Salvadorena".
"We're not excessively pessimistic.
We're realistic.
We know there are huge obstacles,
But we do not deny the potential of Salvadoran society".
El Salvador is a tiny, chaotic country with an overwhelmingly distressing past and present; and still, I see such obstinate hope in the people that I can't help but be encouraged. In so many, I see a faith that lies not in a God that's bigger than them, beyond them and distant, but in the idea that there is extreme potential for the 'divine within' to manifest itself in the people. And I like that.
2 comments:
I love the mural. Is that at the school?
it's actually on the outside wall of one of the city's markets :)
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