Run, Jill, Run!
The story behind the pictures is this:
At one of our Special Meetings, a brother worker told about a tour group that went to visit the Fountain of the Lion. One member of the group was an elderly lady in a wheelchair. Other group members lifted her into the back of the pickup truck at the start of the tour. When they arrived at the Fountain of the Lion, they lifted her out of the truck, put her in her wheelchair and pushed her to the fountain. Soon after their arrival, one of the group members, as a joke, shouted, "LION!" Everyone rushed back to the safety of the truck. Once up in the bed of the pickup, they remembered the little old lady who couldn't walk. What had become of her? Had the lion gotten her? They looked around, and there she was right with them in the truck. Her desperate need caused her to "move forward" on her own. The brother told us that eventually that has to happen with us to. Other people can push us only so far, and then we have to be personally moved by our own need to really get anywhere spiritually.
When we saw this "lion" in the patio of one of the major hotels in Coca, we couldn't resist the opportunity to take a picture and send it to the brother who had shared the story with us.
There are also monkeys in the courtyard. Can you see this one?
Here he is a little closer up.
And swinging from the trees
These particular monkeys use their tails for balance, but they don't swing from them.
Beautiful flowers
A guatusa
On the bank of the river
Boat taxi
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