¨Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means ´God is with us´.¨ - Matt. 1:23
Amen, God is with us. The longer I live this mission life, the more I realize this. There are days when you think you just can´t do it anymore, that there is nothing you can do to make a difference in such chaos and need, and then something happens to remind you no, you are not forsaken, the Lord has come and He lives in each and every heart who have given Him a home and moreover, His mark is on every heart, even those who have yet to know Him. With the Lord so very present how can you ever completely lose hope?
Story of the week is this. One of our dear little crazy boys decided last Tuesday night that he was Superman and wanted to try to fly. So he climbed up on the roof of a building but before he could jump, the roof collapsed beneath him and he fell 20 feet onto a flight of cement stairs and rolled down the stairs. And stood up and walked away with only 5 stitches in his head. Mariya, our great nurse, and Jim, resident dad, took him to the city, 2 hours away, for a x-rays and a CAT scan but he has no skull fracture or any other broken bones. After 5 days of being kept resting, he is back in school and back in action. Incredible. The misioneras say that every child here has 10 guardian angels because little miracles like this happen all the time, and while I don´t know the specifics, clearly the Lord is looking after our children in some way because there is no other explaination. Fernando should not have walked away from a fall like that with nothing more than a cut. But the Lord has been blessing the work here for the last 30 years and so an incident like this just joins the ranks of all the other little miracles that these women have seen. Wow.
In other news, I am working on a new project to gather enough information to arrange the legal paperwork we need but we lack. It is tough but exciting and I am learning a lot. In a lot of ways, it is the proper follow up for all the organizing that I have been doing. I am also being called now when new cases present themselves to base and have been doing the intakes on my own. Scary but really cool that the Lord is helping me with my language skills and that I can finally offer some real services to this base that has already given me so much.
Finally, happy Advent. Last week, to surprise Mariya, I decorated our hallway with some Christmas decor and now it feels a lot more like Christmas, even if it is 80 degrees, haha. This is my favorite time of year, a time for family and a time to remember the humble humanity of Christ and the profound gift that His life, not just His death on the cross, is to all of us. May you all be blessed this Advent season with the feeling of love that comes from having all of your loved ones around you and the gift of the Child Jesus, born to us in a humble barn some 2,000 years ago yet ever so present today.
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