Its incredible how a little laughter can change everything. It breaks through silence, awkwardness and language barriers. It kills prejudices and stereo types. It brings unity.
I have been on a few missions trips and one thing I have learned through them is my own prejudices. I have stereo types and ideas about who the people are or who they aren't. I create barriers that don't even exist and I hate it. I see the locals as different, I think like they won't understand me and, therefore, I feel insecure and awkward. As I arrived in Mexico this last week it was no different. I would meet some people, play with their kids but there was a solemness, a barrier. That is until we played soccer. We saw each other play, laugh, joke, trip and fall. Both sides saw the other being human and everything changed. The truth is no matter the cultural and language differences we are all still simply human. We all laugh and we all fall. We all have hopes and dreams. We all have felt pain and insecurity. The truth is we have created a disunity in this world. A disunity that makes us think it is okay to drop bombs on towns, to take advantage of the immigrant and ignore the marginalized. May God turn our world into a Mosaic. May we all play together. May we all smile and laugh together. May every tribe, tongue and nations worship God together.
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