LESSONS

The lights are out. I’m laying in my bed under my mosquito net so I don’t get attacked by bugs while holding my phone or a flashlight. Oh life without consistent electricity…

A quiet morning led to long day of seemingly endless projects. We worked on two things today, and it’s discouraging to barely see a dent at the end of your work. But… There is a dent. And I guess sometimes you just don’t know how big a project is until you start it. So we’ll do what we can do, and be ok with that :) The roof over the deck upstairs is unfinished and it has been raining… Alot. So we spent our morning bailing water off the roof while singing Disney songs haha. There’s still lots of water up there, but we made a dent. I think. And provided some great entertainment for the local workers fixing the roof :) Hopefully the rain that is sure to come tonight won’t undo everything.

The next many hours were spend on the overwhelming task of organizing medications and supplies in the pharmacy. Gary, the director of CDMM, sees patients at the ministry base aswell as at other locations, and has a crazy amount of stuff that has been donated over the years! Looking at it feels daunting. Pulling it out off of the shelves feels even worse. We worked for hours, until the power went out, and got about four cabinet shelves done. Out of about 45. Oh lord. I am praying for a supernatural ability to accomplish something in that room!

Even so, the day was good. We had music all day, we were fed well, and enjoyed a few minutes sitting in the scarce sunshine at lunch. Aahhh so nice :) I am happy to be helpful, and am excited to see more and do more throughout the rest of the week. And I might even be getting a little bit excited to head home… Maybe :)

I was reading Revelations today. Jesus was taking to one of the seven churches saying that he noticed all of these great actions they were taking. Good works, serving, discerning false teaching, suffering for the sake of Christ, etc. But then he said that they were lacking in something… They had stopped loving each other and God as they once had. And this is the biggest of problems… He says that if they don’t repent and return to love, he will in a sense, take away their ability to be affective! So without love, all the “things” that we do are for not. Wow. This is such an easy distraction. It is so easy to get caught up in doing… I pray that I am always much better at getting caught up in loving :)