Return home with a crazy dream.

We returned home and settled into “real “life with daily events, work, school, snow.  Before we left Roatan we had discussed making an offer on our “dream” property. After returning, securing financing and allowing the thought to settle we corresponded with the realtor and made the offer official.  This is when life started to get interesting. 

The price climbed up a bit over our comfort zone, faxes and emails flowed between Honduras and the Adirondacks.  This brought us to a conversation I will never forget.  My husband and I stood in the kitchen thinking about what to do next. For the next 30 minutes we had a discussion. Or rather I rambled about all the pros and cons and just about everything else while my quiet thoughtful husband sat there and listened.   
The conversation included a vast array of topics, what kind of crazy people send all their money to a third world country,  how do we build an eco-lodge in  such a place, what if we can’t afford to ever build, or visit or go back again. I talked about the type of people that may visit there. The thought reminded us of how we live our life here in the Adirondacks. We live by the motto “mi casa es su casa”. People are welcomed into our home as if it is their home. We believe we are to live a life of hospitality all are welcome and encouraged to become part of our lives and each other’s lives.  So the conversation flowed to the concept of people coming from all over the world to a place of beauty, culture and relaxation. What if God wanted to use our place in Honduras as a place of refuge like people find here at our home in the Adirondacks? The people visiting there would have the opportunity to meet each other, experience the culture of the island, enjoy the beauty of the reef, fall in love with the Island as we had and go home different people.

At the conclusion of my very long ramble I said “even if we never go there again, even if we build a place we never can afford to visit, we need to do it for all the people who will visit, after all we don’t just dream for us we dream for everybody”.  My husband gazed at me for what seemed like forever although I am sure it was just a few seconds and responded with the entire sum of his input, some of the most reassuring words I have ever heard.  “That is absolutely crazy, but it is exactly what we have to do”.

So with the confirmation that we are equally insane and totally meant for each other we took a crazy leap and bought a beautiful piece of land on the hillside, overlooking the ocean in Roatan Honduras.