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“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.” -Anonymous
Jay found that quote a few months ago. We’ve been really trying to live by this quote. Basically, LIVE SIMPLY. I have always been around a world that revolves around material things. Brand name clothes, purse, shoes, nice car, big house and etc…
Mid 2007, I met an elderly couple at work, Mr. and Mrs. Rich. They were the sweetest couple. They weren’t mushy in front of everyone but they were that type of married couple that have been in love and still in love with each other after many, many years. Their secret to this? God. Well early this year, Mrs. Rich told me that Mr. Rich is writing a book. So I asked her what the book is about and she told me it was about their 48-year experience in Peru. And I said, “Ohhh.. I hope I’d be able to read that someday.” So one day, Mr. and Mrs. Rich came by and brought a small book for me. It’s entitled, “To Tame A Savage Heart” by Robert H. Sandberg. Mr. Rich said to me that his book is taking quite a while to write but in the meantime, he wanted to know if I would be interested in reading a similar one. I said, “Oh, definitely!”
So after a month of reading, I found out that the author, Robert H. Sandberg, along with his wife Ruth Sandberg, were Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru. The Sandbergs were with the Iquitos about the same time as the Riches were with the Arabela Indians. How amazing is that? Missionaries who are on a mission to spread God’s Word and His love to people who’s language is not a written language.
So after I finished the Sandbergs book, Mr. and Mrs. Rich loaned me their “roughdraft”. It’s basically their first five years in Peru with the Arabelas. I was so amazed by how far they had to travel to get to the Indians.
Anyway, I will continue blogging more about them and their journey in Peru in my next entries. Ciao!
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