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#6 Lend Things<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Imagine that you are the richest person in your town. You don’t feel rich, but you are. You have things at your disposal that your neighbors could only dream of: things like ibuprofen, hammers (more than one!), a wheelbarrow, Scotch tape, fingernail clippers, and other delights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, if times are hard and food is scarce and money even scarcer, you can be counted on to have corn-flour, beans, and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These volleyball-loving kids would stop by almost daily to borrow the pump to put air in their ball.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Our team spends a lot of time lending things to our Nahuatl friends. This means a trip to the door to see what the person needs and then a trip outside later (if we’re lucky) to receive the borrowed item back. If we’re not so lucky, this means a trip for us to the borrower’s house to fetch back our lent item for our use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When a friend of mine wanted to make bread, she stopped by to borrow flour, yeast, a bowl, and a cookie sheet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In this culture it’s not always polite to cut to the chase. So lending a hammer might mean a 20 minute visit, just shooting the breeze while the visitor builds up goodwill to ask for the item he needs to borrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The decorations for this school graduation were made with paper, cardboard, scissors, glue, and other things borrowed from our house. They were very disappointed that we didn’t have any glitter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All this lending takes a lot of time. And I would be lying if I said that it didn’t get old. Some days, on about the 18th interruption to my work by a borrower, it gets very old, indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To be good community members, we need to borrow as well as lend. This shows that we need others. Here we borrowed a man’s donkey to get our luggage down from the airstrip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But lending stuff is a great way to show God’s love. It shows that we are part of a community of inter-dependency. It shows that we see the stuff we own as God’s, able to benefit a whole town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These cute little dudes stopped by to borrow our toys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Read more about our team’s journies “to the fence<\/a>” in this old blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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