Learning curves

Learning curves come in all shapes and sizes.  We got a ticket on our car while it was parked downtown yesterday, so today we decided to try the skytrain system.  The skytrain is a great transportation system, like a monorail or tram.  From where we are staying, we drive 30 minutes to a station then get on and it takes an hour to get to our drop off station, then we walk a number of blocks to our destination.  Then we do it backwards at night.  We got on the wrong skytrain going home, but it wasn't difficult to get off and get on the correct one. It is a good system.
 Today we observed a children's playtime/bible time at a park.  Members of the Salvation Army (SA) team gather up neighborhood kids, take them to the park, play with them then have a bible story time.  They do this every Weds at 4pm.  Looking around the rest of the park there are a beavy of homeless people, disabled, small groups of individuals that are engaged in questionable activities.  The kids seem so used to it that they don't notice at all.
As we were walking back to Aaron W.'s (the director of SA) apartment for community dinner I saw my first drug tool  sitting on the bench next to some guy.  People don't bother to hide their drug use.  There are no consequences for doing it right out in public.  I walked past a drug deal and a guy peeing next to the building.  These are the colors of Vancouver and really any city in the world - most of the time we turn a blind eye and don't notice.  But Aaron and I can't do that anymore.  God has called us to notice.
We went to a cell group after the community dinner and had a discussion of Colossions 2:16 to the end of the chapter. 
We came home exhuasted physically and mentally.  But blessed to be here, engaging in our purpose!!!