They brought materials and people together.
They planned, organized and invited.
When everything was ready,
they prayed.
As they drove to Bahia de las Aguilas,
on another part of the island,
a man sat down to drink beer.
When they put up their tents on the beach,
the man got up from the bar
and mounted his motorcycle
in a drunken stupor.
One cell phone.
The retreat conference began beautifully.
The youths entered into the rhythm of the themes.
Between one event and another,
two girls go off alone
with the cell phone.
A frantic mother interrupts her daughter´s retreat:
your uncle has just died after being in an accident with a truck.
The girls return crying and shouting.
The retreat begins to spin off in an unanticipated direction.
That night Luis brings all of the youth together.
They pray for the family who has just lost the chief benefactor,
the one with the highest paying job.
The one who was to pay the girl´s university tuition.
Luis asks: Do we continue with the retreat, or do we end it now?
Why the question?
Why give the youth the power to cancel the mobilization of so many resources?
They vote to end the retreat.
The next morning they fold up the tents
and return to be with a family still in shock.
Lord, where do you live?
Where were you in the vote?
Did you give the apostles a vote when you went to Jerusalem?
Are the dead still required to bury the dead?
