Tico Tuesday, July 14th

If you can identify this flag without looking it up, you get major gold stars, big smiles and I wish I could send you cookies. If you can't, I hereby make a sad face. :-(

Hints:

Its borders are with Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, the Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean

The people I live with are from this country

The capital city is Tegucigalpa and the currency is the Lempira.

One of my best friends from the Tetons is from this country, as is one of my coworkers here

It's president was just deposed because of unconstitutional behavior (and the guy is in cahoots with Hugo Chavez, the socialist of Venezuela)

Got it? I sure hope so. If not, I recommend you start paying a little more attention to the news. But don't worry, there is grace for you. It's Honduras!

I'll share on my blog a few thoughts and stories of what I know regarding Honduras. Http://smithcj1.blogspot.com/

Thanks for coming to read! Apparently the media has not been painting a very fair picture of the situation in Honduras. I am guessing it is worse in the US than here, but I'm not there, so I don't really know. I do know though that the US is supporting Mel Zelaya, the deposed prez of Honduras, and saying that he should be reinstated. Hold your horses, folks (and world). Boosting Zelaya was actually legal and constitutional. However, it's execution wasn't perfect. The military took some extra liberties that were not necessary. So, both parties are truly guilty. But if we are going to talk in relative terms, the wrongs of Zelaya FAR outweigh those of the military that ousted him. The guy had Hugo Chavez, the socialist president of Venezuela with perpetual presidency, illegally send him ballots for a referendum to make Zelaya perpetual president of Honduras. And then after the ballots got there they were confiscated, but Zelaya had people break in and steal them. Talk about a brilliant guy. And that was really just the straw that broke the camel's back (thought it was a very fat, heavy straw). This deceptive guy has been bad news for a long time. The vast majority of Honduras is supporting Micheletti (the former legislative leader that is acting as president until the country's elections in November) and is ready for life to move on. They want the Zelaya chapter over and done and they don't want the man back in the country. Chavez has threatened to take out “Micheletti, Confetti, or whatever government is set up” until Zelaya is reinstated. The two Honduran presidents are currently going through mediation with Oscar Arias, the Nobel Peace Prize holding President of...Costa Rica!! Apparently Zelaya gave an ultimatum the other day saying the mediation will not have been successful unless he is allowed back into Honduras. Oh brother! Please pray for this country!!

In other news, I met two Hondurans that came to Costa Rica within the last 5 days-both are here to study. One will actually be my roomie for a while. She is a sweet, quiet girl. The other went to CCI Tegucigalpa when he was in Honduras and is pumped to get involved at church here.

We have had some really good prayer times during church for Honduras. There are 3 Honduran families that I know of who go to my church here. Now there are more individuals. Please pray for them, their families, and for the church in Honduras. God has big plans for that country!!