Hello all!
Life has been crazy and has now started to slow down. Confirmation week has come and gone with much joy. Sixteen Confirmation masses, six 12-hour days, and 295 confirmands - I am happy to see that week go! If you want to get a sense of what the week was like, check out Matt’s blog at http://mattinpg.blogspot.com/
I’ve decided again to share one of my journal entries via my blog as I think it is a good representation as to where I am right now in my time here. It’s a simple yet honest portrayal of my everyday life and the thought processes that occur early in the Belizean morning. Enjoy :)
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(sitting at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee with a lee bit of instant hot chocolate added – 7:30am)
I found another quote while reading The Fifth Week that I really enjoyed. It’s a quote that I have read many times, especially during my two long years of Western Civ at PC. For some reason though, it has not spoken to me until now. Perhaps because it is now that I truly believe it.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
- Socrates
This is what my two years in JVI has been all about for me – truly looking deep within myself and at the life I am choosing to live. I examine my life and the choices I do and do not make nearly every day. And as I write in almost every entry, I find new and old things about myself that I desire to change as I discover that they are not a part of my true inner being.
I’m going to miss these mornings in Belize. Starting with a bike ride at sunrise along the seafront. Coming home and making a simple breakfast of toast and/or eggs. Having a cup of coffee and a great journaling session as John Mayer plays on the c.d. player. Emily already off to work, Allison still sleeping, and Matt on the big orange couch either reading his All Saints book or journaling in his mini moleskin journal…. and then complaining about how small the goddamn thing is.
These are the simple moments of my everyday life that I live for and am beyond grateful to have the opportunity to live. They are beautiful moments that can be taken for granted so easily, passing without ever being acknowledged or appreciated.
How necessary it is to live witness to these simple moments of joy!
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I hope that we are all able to recognize these moments in our busy days that continue to bless us and prepare us for the crazy unforeseen struggles and joys of our daily lives.
Love you all.
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helloo patricio! just wanted to leave you a little note. i am still an avid follower of your blogging. i also just stalked matt's blog and confirmation week surely sounds like quite the adventure. i especially enjoyed reading about the little child who caught the bird while driving through the jungle. and i loled at your hiking outfit complete with the "diva" shades. ohh, how that made me miss you. can't wait until you return. love you!
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