Note: Blog and Artwork by Shes Rivera, PT

I don’t have a good sense of direction. I get lost very easily. 

Friends and family often ask me, “Do you always get lost? How do you navigate in places you are not familiar with? How do you get where you need to go?”

My answer: “It depends upon where I am going, and if I am with someone or alone. I try to use the resources I have available, for example: friends or people I am with, phone apps, or asking people on the street for directions.”

In Guatemala, and in many other countries, when someone on the street gives you directions, it doesn’t always mean they know the place you are looking for. They may make something up because they don’t want to tell you they don’t know how to get there. How do you know they are sending you to the right place? Most of the time, I take a step of faith, believing they’re sending me to the right place, but knowing it may lead me to a different place. I eventually get where I need to go. 

Sometimes in life we feel as if we have a direction, an address to go to, a calling, but we have no idea how to get there. What resources are we relying on?

God has given TCI a direction, a calling. He has called us to train local people in remote places, places without access to needed therapy services, in how to provide these basic services. As we do, we are creating relationships to share the love of Christ with those we work with and equipping them to do the same through their interactions with people with disabilities and their families. People are asking us, how are you going to do that? 

We don’t know have it all figured out, but we will rely on the Lord. We give Him the map and ask him to give us the directions. We walk by faith.