The Amazon Family

Animation is a wonderful thing. I met a man one day that was making a cartoon and I asked him if I could see it when he finished. He said “Sure.” I noticed as I watched him draw that it was about a boy and his adventures in the Amazon. When the man finished he handed it to me it was a few pages long. It started out in England which is were the boys family was from but then they embarked for the Amazon. On the way the boat fluxed about in the waves like a rowboat on rapids. The sea was very rough. When the got to the coast they still had a trek in front of them till they got to the Amazon. They had to traverse through many different climates and landscape.

His family was very venturesome. Every time they saw a person they would ask them where they were and if they were headed the correct way. A few times they were told a better way to go and then were asked where they were from. They would tell them that they were emigrates from England. Sometimes they would not take the peoples advice because they liked to be trailblazers and set there own path.

To some people their trip might have seemed just like a junket but it wasn’t. It was for adventure and a new life in a vivacious climate. At times the journey to get to there destination seemed like it would never end and then something inside of them would goad them on. The vigor inside of them to have adventures in the Amazon is what kept them going most of the trip.

On there trip to the Amazon they met many people that were polytheistic which meant that they believed in many immortal gods. They talked about what gods they believed in and that they believed in reincarnation; after they died they came back as another type of animal. Then they would use the opportunity to tell them about Jesus and what he had done for them that. They themselves were mortals and would all someday die but that. Jesus died for them because he loved them so much. That everyone was a sinner and the only way for salvation was though Jesus and that they just had to admit, believe and confess. We also told them that Jesus had resurrected from the grave and is alive.

When they finally got to the Amazon they saw thought about the people they had saw and wondered how they could not have figured out that God had given them vitality. He had given them a reason to live. He was the one that created them. They then used there resources to set up a home in the Amazon and decide to stay there so that every morning they could wake up to God’s beautiful creation. The years they lived there they saw the animals that migrated every year and learned about what animals did. The animals treated them like family and accepted them. They decide that after living there for a few years that it was a viable place to live and be adventurous. Many people came and went from the area and they always had someone to share there faith with and living there was a resuscitation every day of what God had done for them.