If I has a limpira (the Honduran currancy) for everytime I was asked what I do each day for the second or third time ... I could buy groceries for one of our friends for a week! So, forgive me for not telling you until now about what I do, but I am still learning myself. Much of my time is spent in quiet - cleaning, praying, sitting on a bus which is too loud to talk to the person next to you. And the visit are the opposite. So I feel like each day I am part Mary and part Martha - part listening and part acting. So below is my schedule, daily and weekly, to give you a better idea.
Daily Schedule:
Our days are marked our by prayer time and meal time. I enjoy the structure and seem to fill every moment.
7 am - Morning prayer
7.30 am - Time to read
8 am - Breakfast
9 am to 12.30 pm - Hand wash dishes, clothes, sheets, towels, etc.
- An hour of individual prayer
- Exercise
- Prepare for upcoming activities
12.30 pm - Lunch
1.30 pm - Siesta
2.30 pm - Pray with the kids from the neighborhood
3 pm - Afternoon activities
5.45 pm - Evening Prayer
6.30 pm - Mass
7.30 pm - Dinner
9 pm - Night prayer
Weekly Schedule:
Monday - Day off - Internet, Sleep, Write letters, often in the house of a friend who lives outside of our neighborhood where we can rest
Tuesday - My day to cook all three meals!!!!
- AM - Shopping either at the Produce Market at 6 am or the Supermarket after breakfast
- PM - Visits in the neighborhood
Wednesday - AM - Clean our house from top to bottom! With the windows and doors always open and dirt roads throughout our neighborhood, you can imagine how important this is!
- PM - Soccer with the teens (pm)
- Evening - Mass in our house and a reception after for anyone who wants to join us.
Thursday - Visit to the Home for the Elderly or the Women´s Prison - Right now I go mostly to the Home for the Aging and to the prison only once every three or four weeks.
Friday - AM - Weekly planning meeting
- PM - My day for the Permenancia - The house is open to all the neighborhood kids to come play. We often have 20 +!
- Evening - Book club for young adults which we call the ¨School of Community¨
Saturday - PM - Visits in the neighborhood
- Evening - Teen girls book club - Right now we are reading The Little Prince
Sunday - Seems to change every week. Church in the morning in our neighborhood. Once a month we have an afternoon ¨retreat¨ in the mountains with friends of Heart´s Home from around the city. We go visit or invite people to visit us.
We often have guests who stop by as they are passing and frequently invite friends to join us for a meal. We make a simple cake for the birthdays of the kids and either invite them over or take it to them. Our days are very full and our schedule constantly changing as needed to accomodate opportunities which present themselves. Everyday is different!
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