I didn't have an inch on my legs that wasn't covered with mosquito bites.
An insect had burrowed into my arm, died, and stained the interior of my skin, leaving this alien-like scarring.
It was over 100 degrees, full humidity as we hiked to minister to leper colonies in the heart of the Amazon. I likely contracted my latent tuberculosis in that colony, but I also had the opportunity to lead people to abiding new life in Christ, so I wouldn't trade it for ANYTHING!
And still, as a missionary in Brazil, there were so many days that I just thought "I just can't do this! It's just too hard."
And then, God spoke His Word to me, "We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed, always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body."
THAT essential truth - the fellowship of Jesus' suffering and the experience of His resurrected life - is ON, today on Rinse and Repeat.

(RAR2025EP19)