no.113 130821 Thank you for the beach

Beautiful sky on the way back to Toronto from Centre Island.

 

My friends and I went to Centre Island beach just for fun before the summer is completely over. I applied enough sunscreen to protect myself, but it wasn't helpful at all. My arms, hands, legs and my neck are super itchy right now. I put a lot of allergy relief cream but it's not really helping. It's probably the worst it's been all summer long. It makes me wonder how I survived the sun in Mexico. Maybe it's because Guadalajara has a higher pollution index (90.34) than Toronto (25.90) as you can see in Pollution Idex by City. Whatever it was, I think it was God's grace that I survived the sun in Mexico. During the construction days, I only wore long sleeves because I was worried about the sun allergy but I also wanted to protect myself from getting cuts. When we had VBS, I was wearing a plain T-shirt so I should've been affected by the sun but I wasn't. It's really a mystery that my skin was okay. Whatever the reason was, I'm so thankful that my allergy didn't act up during the mission trip.

Apparently, I hated walking on sand when I was a baby. Weird, because I love it now!

 

On the way home, I was looking through the pictures I took in Mexico on my phone. Then I realized that today is Wednesday, and that there is a service in Guadalajara church at 6PM. So I prayed a simple prayer on the subway for Rolando's church, Dios de Pactos. As I was thinking about the Wednesday service, I checked the time and it was exactly 7PM, meaning that it's 6PM over there. What a coincidence! I know that I'm going to associate many things to what I saw and experienced in Mexico. At least for a while.

I feel like I have already shared this. If I did, I want to share this song again. The song is called "Vamos a Cantar" or "Sing, sing, sing" in English. It's one of the songs our team prepared for the mission trip. We sang it numerous times while we were in Mexico, so whenever I hear this song I think about the times we worshipped God in one voice, in Spanish! Since I got back, I purposely listen to it because I miss Mexico a lot. Pastor Rolando said he's going to remember me whenever he sings this song, so I'm going to remember him and his church too!