things I'm deciding...

1) My dad REALLY needs to just move in, and live with us forever.

2) As much as I groaned about losing Noel as a nanny and sending her to university, I'm starting to realize that this is a really good thing.  Here we have a young, smart girl from a really poor family of 11, lived her whole life in Saccanville, and she has a dream to be a nurse, and we have this God-given chance to DO something in Saccanville and DO something in her family by DOING something in her.  

Having two kids in school in Haiti is a good thing.

3) Dengue fever, and mosquitos in general, should be outlawed, especially in children who were ALREADY very hard to please on good days.

4) Sickness in general should be outlawed...wait, I'm pretty sure that is how the Lord set things up!  Ah, to be living in the health, happiness, and wholeness that He originally designed!  Strep and Dengue and even colds make me re-anxious for heaven.

5) I may be too hard on myself.  Sometimes.  About things that don't matter to Him.  I'm thinking.

6) Taking a stand on what is right in the face of extreme opposition may be right, but it also may be exhausting and discouraging and a bit depressing.  I'm proud of you, hunnie...hang in there!

7) Parent meetings at school should NEVER be over 3 hours long.  never.  

8) Lily's school's decision to start school even earlier, locking the front gate at 7:25 am...not good.  

9) Konpech is a REALLY HARD PLACE.  Despite Junior sharing his riveting and powerful testimony there on Sunday and ALL the sharing and sowing of the Gospel there over the past 2 years...man, it is almost like nothing has ever changed.  Empty, dark eyes.  Bored expressions.  Closed spirits.  We've gotta keep dusting off our sandals when led, going when led, preaching when led, and praying for the people described in 2nd Cor. 4: "Even if the Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded their minds so they canNOT see the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ."

10) Even in the sickest moments, the most monotonous of days, the most dreary of tasks, I'm deciding this:

Your work is a gift… that means that above all joys the highest joy to be enjoyed is the Giver.

And he is worthy of your worship this hour and every hour.

In the Lord’s presence there is joy with a magnitude and endurance that our finite minds can hardly fathom because it’s full and it’s forever.

When our work is unto the Lord, through the Lord, and for the Lord, we find that he does not fail to satisfy us. And when our hearts struggle to feel this is true, we declare by faith, “Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you” (Ps. 73:25).