Full time

Day 2 of full time status. Life is awesome. Lookin' forward to that pay check.

The lead in I did last night to Rosarito was beautiful. I got to take the toll road back to the border. It runs right along the coast and the view is inexplicably gorgeous. On the left there is about a three foot shoulder between the road and the sheer cliff drop off which leads your eyes down to white, foamy waves crashing on the giant rocks. The setting sun makes the water look just like a disco ball when the dance floor is packed and the lights are hitting it from every direction. Huge pelicans float across the string of horizon as though they were being strung like popcorn for the Christmas tree. The colors are so vibrant you start to wonder if you have ever really seen color before this moment.

And then you look to the right. Huge mansions pop up out of the jungle of four wall, tarp roof shanties like weeds. The contrast of extreme poverty and extreme wealth living so close in proximity still gets me to this day. I don't understand it. Maybe never will. What I do understand is that God gives the beauty of His creation equally to all. The glistening water doesn't look at the people in the shacks and say, "Oh, you're poor. I not going to glisten as brightly." I wish I could say that if it was me living in those mansions that I would give generously to my neighbors but I can't. I don't know what I'd do; I've never been in that place and so it's important, when faced with so much poverty every time I travel to Mexico, for me to remember that God is not withholding His beauty and love from the rich people living in mansions any more than He is withholding His beauty from the poorest of poor so neither should I.