February 6 …. Ahhhhhhh the last day…

Not much to be done today. We work very fast that we were ahead of the schedule.

This morning I woke up and determined to go to the beach once again before going back to chilly Connecticut.

We get to the beach just in time for the sun to rise. It was a beautiful sight.
The birds flew on the water and approaching us for we were throwing bread crumbs to them. Their wings and white body gleaming in gold color of the sunrise with low tide waters slowly lapping the shore.

So peaceful…. Hard to think that this peacefulness once raged and swept all away.

We finished work at Mrs. Pluff by lunch time.
It was a mixed feeling to know that we’re leaving this house.
The house that I stepped on with not knowing what to do and not sure whether I can do it, now I left it with sense of pride that my hand had touched it’s nook and cranny.
Forever will my fingerprints left there as I walk away with a piece of my heart behind in that house.

We went to Katrina’s Memorial. I was feeling a bit disgusted to see how arrogant the casino stood tall adorned with all it’s trinkets. I think of the ‘ordinary” people I met these few days. And can’t help but to sigh….

We end the week of working with a devotion night as I can say. Where we pray and sing the chanting of “Doa Bapa Kami”. Jonathan led us in washing rituals where we take turn washed each other’s hand.

Jacky got to wash my hand. And I wash Jim’s hand. We were constantly reminded of Jesus washing the feet of it’s disciples. And in a way it is a “sending them out”.
Not just an example of servant leadership but an inheritance and sharing of spirit and faith. Jacky had been someone I look up to in Voluntary work. I shared the craziness of idealism and creativity. In my time I will walk his footstep to contribute a little piece of me to my motherland, Ambon-Indonesia.

I started my week work with an unsure opinion on Jim, The Big Man. But I ended with an assurance that he IS the big man. A man with a BIG heart. I trace a cross to his hands with a prayer that those hands will continue to bring miracles to everything he touched.