updates...

Man alive.  Friday evening or Saturday I must have picked up some kind of parasite, because it was a miserable weekend.  VERY thankfully, Matt and the girls didn't get whatever "Haitian Happiness" I did, and once Matt got home from preaching Sunday afternoon, he was just dad and husband of the year...diapers, dishes, princess parties, dinner.

Very thankful that "I think I'm going to die" turned into a 24 hour thing, and very thankful this morning to be feeling almost myself again, and down 6 pounds.

For some answers to several of you and updates...

-Belony is still sick, and after a visit to Milo clinic, still unsure of what is wrong.  He's not the only one who is starting to feel concerned over this ongoing "sickness".

-Elizay did NOT have surgery last week because whenever he went to the hospital, the price he had previously been given for the surgery went up 9x's.  He was told that that was the new price.  Corruption + no medical insurance in existence = no surgery.  He's looking into some other clinics...

-I've been doing lots of investigation through different Bible studies many of you have presented, and a lot of them seem fantastic.  With some of the women I'd like to do the study with being unable to read and none of the women being able to read in English, I am feeling a tad limited!  Use a study and translate the lessons and study into Creole?   Use the Creole Bible and try to facilitate good questions that will help the woman find meaning and application on their own?  Still praying and researching...

-Oswald Chambers.  I most often use two different devotionals by him...Either "My Utmost for His Highest" or "Devotions for a Deeper Life."   Both of them go through the calendar with a passage and a meditative thought for the day.  Both of them are just fantastic, and I've been using "My Utmost" for years now.

-No, there are no other missionaries living with us right now.  We are NOT on the main OMS compound in Vaudreil (about 45 minutes from down town Cap-Haitien), but are 30 minutes from there (about 1:15 minutes from Cap-Haitien).  While OMS Haiti has 6-8 short or long-term missionaries in Haiti right now, we are currently the only ones at the Seminary, which is where we live (on the Seminary campus).  But, 75 of our Haitian brothers and sisters are on campus with us all day, 50 live with us all week, and 4-6 stay with us on the weekends.

-ice cream.

Ok, so nobody asked anything with the answer ice cream.  But goodness.  I can't stop thinking about it all the same.  Dairy Queen buster bar.  or Blizzard.  or Ben and Jerry's anything.  I need to stop.

Matthew 5:16, another well known verse that is hitting me in a new way right now:

Let your light shine before men
in such away 
that they may see your good works
and glorify your Father


What way IS that?  What way can I better be letting Him shine through me that causes people to glorify Him?  How can I be more absent!?

thank you all for your prayers