From your favorite Inca Cowboy

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Let the Inca in me speak a word to you from my heart.

 

Dear family and friends,

 

‟God in the Quechua mind is a shepherd who does not sleep, hate or run out of the supplies to feed his sheep.”

 

The idea is also that the Shepherd belongs to the sheep and not the other way around. ‟My Shepherd is for me myself and I.” But when it comes to being taken care of, the sheep recognizes themselves as a treasured possession of the Shepherd.

 

When it comes to needs and prayer the Quechua mind prefaces every petition reminding God of his fatherhood and of himself as his child. There is a gentle reminder to God that his right as child is the ground of prayer. It is as if saying that “Should I not believe what I believe, I would not be coming before you in prayer dear Lord.”

 

The Quechua soul values itself twice worthy: first for having been created by the hand of God in skill and wisdom and beauty and second for having been bought at a great price with the precious blood of Jesus ...therefore of great value to God.

 

In the Quechua mind there is recognition of the worthlessness of self as a slave...at the same time...the Quechua mind brags on itself having great value in the light of the price paid by God for our salvation.

 

The confidence of the Quechua mind is in the work and love of God and not in his own evaluation. For the Quechua mind it is easier to understand that “Salvation is of the Lord.” It is also clear in the Quechua mind that a lost soul cannot save itself.

 

Blessed are those who speak in other tongues, for each tongue has a soul of its own that contributes in the “delicious sauce of food for thought” which is prepared for the common good.

 

“Qamña allinlla ancha cuyasqay.”

That is, “I desire you good my beloved.”

 

This was “Hot biscuit” from your baker on duty this day that the Lord has made.

 

Gerry Gutierrez.

 

PS. My Father-in-Law Harry Marshall (103 years old) and my kids in Wilmington.