Happy Thanksgiving from the town of Rivaco, Guatemala

Thursday is Thanksgiving and between now and then we will be told via a variety of media and by any number of individuals why and for what we have to be thankful. In many cases they will be correct.

I’m not going to be one of them. Instead, I thought maybe I’d tell you of the things I am thankful for.

To do that, I’m going to tell a story. Some of you know I go on mission trips to Guatemala in the summers. This is a story I heard firsthand from my trip in 2013.

It’s about a town named Rivaco and a man named Jacinto. Rivaco is hard to find on most maps, but then so are many towns and cities in...