Thanks in Thanksgiving day:

Thanks in Thanksgiving day:


Saying thanks is one of the most simple, humble and beautiful things we can do. Sadly - as generations and technology advance - it seems we are loosing this magnificent gift that brings warmth to all kind of human relationships breaking the “entitlement” we socially adopt due the many “rights” we have been given to own.

I’m honored to be able to say thanks to God and you today. Thanks from my heart; thanks for the glory of God who is the One who uses us to bless each other in unique ways. It has been by His grace and your support that I have been able to spend time in China, India and Ecuador serving people for the sake of Christ; because of His love. I am back in Houston, safe but eternally different.

There are many memories and lessons to share; many stories of real lives whose paths crossed with mine during the trip causing some changes for good in both of us. I usually choose one of those stories to share but this time it’s different since the one I chose does not belong to a Chinese new friend; it belongs to an Ecuadorian old friend: myself.

As many of you may know my life had a radical change six years ago when by the grace of God I met His Son personally for first time and was captivated ever since by His love and His story; the one I though I knew but I really didn’t since I never relate it with mine. Before this change I both enjoyed and suffered success in ‘real’ life bearing its consequences; it was after the change when I also enjoyed and suffered success in ‘spiritual’ life learning a different perspective of life. After years, I have to say that I would not change the second part of my experience for anything since I discovered spiritual live is real life and not the opposite. Anyway, in some early point of the process of these six years I remember myself telling God: “… do anything but don’t make me a missionary!” It has been a long way since then…

I hope you can enjoy these videos as a visual testimony of real people and real places; both beautiful and both created with just one purpose... glorify God. We are not that far, we are not that different... I hope your will see that through the faces and views of the pictures.

Jesus said: “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself”… (John 12:32) He was lifted up on the cross already and He wants to be lifted up from the earth today… we don’t lift up religion but Christ; and is then when He draws all men to Himself. We just can lifted up Jesus together… thanks for doing it with me in China, India and Ecuador; we where together; He gave us the honor to do it; I went and you allowed me to go… we lifted up Jesus together; at least for some of those millions that just don’t know there is a God who speaks clearly about those words their hearts are missing.

Xie - Xie (thanks) and blessings,

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