Wednesday. 7pm. I'm waiting by the street for a drink I ordered
from the small business at the house next door. As usual, a group of street
kids comes up begging for money. In my broken Spanish I explain to them why I
won't give them money. I learn their names and start playing a little game with
them making them laugh by talking in strange high pitched voices. We're
friends. No more than a minute later an older boy, maybe 14 years old, comes by
and clearly displays his ownership of the kids. He hits them, shoves them
around and demands

his money for the day and then walks on by. I sit there. I
do nothing but stare. I cower.

Thursday. 11:30 am. I'm in La Jungle, the busiest drug
trafficking spot in Granada, sitting in front of a crack house. I talk with the
people I've been building relationships with for the past month. The pastor
gives a message and we hand out crackers and drinks. We are about to leave when
a man walks up, early 20's, maybe 110lbs. He grabs one of the girls who I
assume is a prostitute, throws her out in the street and starts yelling at her.
He picks her up and grabs her by the neck and walks her down the street yelling
in her face and nearly cripples her to the ground. I hold a package of crackers
in my hand and let it pass. I cower.

October. A.D. 29. Jesus is teaching in the temple early in
the morning when "the scribes and Pharisees bring to Him a woman caught in
adultery. And as they set her in the midst they say to Him, "Teacher, this
woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the Law, commanded
us that such should be stoned. But what do you say?" As though he does not
hear, Jesus stoops down and writes on the ground with His finger. So when they
continue asking Him, He raises himself up and says to them, "He who is without
sin among you let him throw the first stone at her." Again he stoops down and
writes on the ground. Then those who hear it being convicted by their
conscience go out one by one beginning with the oldest down to the last one.
And Jesus is left alone with the woman standing in the midst." A Savior.