A little reflection

How do you begin to put someone's mind in a place and time that is so foreign to them in just a few words? As I reflect on all the events, thoughts, triumphs, defeats of the last couple of days, I remember that the highlight for me today was when LeighAnn read us a beautiful bible passage that put so many of my thoughts into focus. As she had watched the exuming of the body of the man who was brutally murdered in that tranquil Guatemalan aldea in 1982 and the truth of what had occurred was being "unearthed" she was thinking of a bible verse that was so applicable.
John 3: 19-21 "This is the verdict; Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
The little bit of the story of these men's deaths that I know was that one was protecting the other from being found and for that, they were both murdered. I interviewed his wife and she so innocently said that she had no idea why there even was a war. She doesn't know which side killed her beloved but she wept as she talked about the beautiful Guatemala she knew as a child and how it had all been destroyed by that war. 
Yet, as the body was very slowly and reverently exumed, it seemed to us that yes, the light was being exposed as it should have been in God's good time. I watched the great hope in the faces of the young men who were doing the work. As they heard all the stories and realized how much their own parents were involved, they seemed to display a hope I hadn't seen before; a hope that will ultimately achieve the goal of our organization which is to no longer be needed there! One of the men who was killed had willingly risked his life for another doing what he knew was right in the eyes of God and man and now his goodness was being revealed to other generations and other nations for their greater good.