The team took the bus to Antigua today on our journey out to the airport tomorrow morning. The countryside is absolutely gorgeous and the volcano was showing off it’s plumes of smoke. The entire team has been in a covid bubble throughout this past week & today we all had a couple of hours to step out of that to explore what was once the capital city of Guatemala. Lots of interesting shops and old colonial architecture. Everyone we encountered was wearing masks!
Friday evening was the last night the whole team shared a meal together. After dinner some of the team provided hilarious skits that will forever be remembered as a final joyful touch to a wonderful week.
Throughout the week the team met together each morning at 6AM for reflection time before breakfast. There were lots of inspirational discussions about our purpose here. One of the poems that was shared is worth sharing here in its entirety as we say goodbye.
‘Invictus’
by William Ernest Henley:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
