Extreme poverty is ever present in Tegucigalpa but our team's home visits to two families who are being upheld by
Tegucigalpa Central Methodist church revealed hope in the midst of it. These mothers love their children deeply. Siblings care for one another from an early age. The homes revealed great ingenuity to use what they had creatively. A broken bucket is a planter. A plastic table cloth is a room divider. Pallet material becomes a shelving unit. Nothing useful is thrown away. They were proud of the homes they had cobbled together.
With so little in material comfort these mothers rely upon hope and God's grace as a more real and present comfort. One of the mothers said to us with absolute certainty. "We will be together in heaven." It seems that in absence of material abundance spiritual abundance thrives. One wonders how much our own material abundance gets in the way of our reliance upon God, a lesson we can learn over and over again from the Honduran people.
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