What an incredibly good and busy weekend! We're all beat! Again, you know I've got 200 pictures, but what I can send my sister through our phone will have to do!
Friday, Dad finally got to meet baby Christie...who really just wanted to eat :) It was really touching to watch Dad and Maxi in awe together over the miracle of baby Christie!
Saturday, we all headed for the beach and enjoyed a gorgeous day together and with Grandpa! Everyone's getting really into snorkeling, and it is always really nice to have a day away from life, with blissfully happy kids, with a few less worries...add in having family? It was great.
Then today, we got up with the sun and headed for Coup-a-David, the mountain church of past student and good friend Enick. As always, the 80 minute hike was just gorgeous...lots of people to talk to, so much beauty to be seen, many Christians coming from surrounding mountains, a very happy Lily-Goat, and an all around great day to be a part of this beautiful country and rich culture. Walnique, Enick's brother and current 3rd year student, helps him on the mountain two Sunday's a month, and this Sunday, communion Sunday, was one of them. It was fabulous.
If you ever come visit, we'll take you for a walk through Haiti with great worship with our family in the middle!
Dad, however, is pretty sure he wants to do it again during the winter...by the time we got to church we were all completely drenched :)
We made it home by 2 and have been resting up and grading papers, getting ready for a new week!
Hoping to get something figured out with the internet this week, have some good time with Dad, help Lily through week two of school (which she continues to be excited about :), and teach!
Thank you for bearing with us...sometimes smoke-signals seem like they'd seem to be a more reliable form of communication! As we walked through tiny villages of woven houses today, I was reminded that even though it is 2013 and it seems crazy that email is impossible...there's a lot of the world where it is NOT considered anywhere close to a necessity--like Haiti! Just like refrigerated foods are almost impossible to get in a country without refrigeration, and electricity is incredibly complicated and expensive in a country without electricity, internet is almost impossible to count on in a country without internet!
But my Jesus. How possible He is...how ready. There is no land, no place too void of Him for Him to reign...no heart too far, too dark, for Him to be radiant...No place He doesn't desire to be the reality.
So thankful.
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