{"id":486,"date":"2010-02-09T13:46:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/blog\/crosscultural\/?p=486"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:46:05","slug":"trusting-god-in-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2010\/02\/09\/trusting-god-in-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"Trusting God in Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"alignright\" title=\"Guatemala\/Mexico 4\" href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/blog\/crosscultural\/photos\/album\/72157623381757254\/guatemalamexico-4.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4341004653_74dbefc34c_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Guatemala\/Mexico 4\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>During my time in Guatemala, I certainly have felt the presence of God. I feel so vulnerable living in a large city where I don&#8217;t know the language, \u00a0and living in a country that has more violence and danger than I knew before coming. Yet God has given me a sense of peace and protection, and as I ride the public bus daily, I am able to relax and pray. The 2 buses I ride are old US school buses- sometimes they even have the old license plate mounted inside. Why were these buses not good enough for US schoolchildren anymore, but they&#8217;re fine for the Guatemalan public bus system? I&#8217;m glad the buses are being used, but maybe we&#8217;re used to things too nice in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason I need God&#8217;s presence so much here is the confusion the language barrier creates. I feel like a stupid child when I speak to my host family, and I just wish they knew that I was the valedictorian in high school and I&#8217;m a gifted writer. The experience really gives you an identity crisis, and you get used to feeling awkward and not knowing &#8220;why&#8221; when something happens.<\/p>\n<p>-Anna Engle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my time in Guatemala, I certainly have felt the presence of God. I feel so vulnerable living in a large city where I don&#8217;t know the language, \u00a0and living in a country that has more violence and danger than I knew before coming. Yet God has given me a sense of peace and protection, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/2010\/02\/09\/trusting-god-in-guatemala\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trusting God in Guatemala<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala-mexico-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/intercultural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}