The reality that we only have one week left of ministry and life in Siem Reap is hard to grasp. This is a place where our hearts have melded with so many people, our boys call home, and where Jonathan is turning Cambodian! Som, the owner of our guest house, laughingly said that Jon just needs only one year here and he would pass for a local because his pronunciation is amazingly good!
Yesterday we visited PCL's ministry to the floating village on the Tonle Sap Lake -- the largest lake in Southeast Asia. Here are the notes from the journal I was writing while on the boat:
"How can my Western mind comprehend the Tonle Sap Lake? Children jumping from boat to boat and hanging precariously off the sides. Some of them are no more than seven years old and they are navigating the vast, brown waters on their own. The community is separated by water, but bound by lifestyle. There is no place for the children to run and play. But in the middle of this is a beacon of light, a large white and blue boat -- mammoth in its size and construction compared to the thatched shacks floating nearby."
Pulling up to the PCL ministry boat took my breath away! Here, in the middle of the lake, was a beautiful boat used as a meeting place for the community. They have school and church there.
There is so much more we want to do in Cambodia -- so much to do in any part of the world! I pray everyday that my heart would be open to whatever God asks us to do and that we'd just do it!
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