Bobby Broyles, a missionary in Honduras, equates damnificado to homeless. In 1999, Honduras is filled with people who have experienced tragic losses that may require years for recovery. Despite the severity of the physical loss, life hurries on in hopes of the future. New villages are being built for hurricane victims who lost their homes. Homes are abandoned, replaced.
People are in transit, new places, new friends, new buildings.
Hope springs eternal. As I spent a week in Honduras, one thought struck me repeatedly. The hurricane victims are not the real damnificados. Their homelessness can and will be corrected as volunteers build hundreds of new homes. The real damnificados are those persons in every place who hurry about life outside of Jesus Christ.