our firm foundation

What a week!  After fighting off the virus everyone's been passing around, we hosted five fantastic pastors from the Harvest Bible Church community in Canada Tuesday night, and fell into bed for a good nights sleep when all three girls started taking turns throwing up all over everything throughout the night.  By the time they'd each been sick 3-4 times, it was morning, and we were all good and wiped.  I taught in the morning Wednesday, but except for that we all mostly bleached, napped, ate crackers, showered, tried not to kiss all over Ben, read books, watched Swiss Family Robinson (I wish you could have seen Guesica's reaction to the massive snake scene...we're supposed to be HELPING her sleep :) and bleached some more.

This morning everyone woke up hungry and wanting to play, so I'm praising the Lord for His great help yesterday and for His healing today.  Matt and I are happy to be back to work, and the girls are working on a day of homeschool before heading back to school down the road tomorrow!

No more major tremors or earthquakes, so we are thankful for that, and working with Lily as she continues to struggle with going to sleep at night...thank you for your prayers.  We've been enjoying the quality time with Gues and Leme, and tomorrow they will try to move back home (prayers for them, too, please!) and our dear friends who live in Port-au-Prince are coming to meet Ben!!

Greg and Cathie were God's very powerful, healing, loving and empowering hands and feet in my life both after high school and after the death of my mom, and played a major role in Matt's first trip to Haiti, and we haven't seen them in FAR too long.  We are all SO looking forward to a weekend catching up with them and helping our kiddos have a relationship with this Godly couple!

Not two seconds after they leave, Matt leaves too, this time to attend and speak at the OMS Presidential Gathering in North Carolina.  We'd be getting sad, but my dear friend Elisa is coming to also meet Ben, and to spend the days Matt's away spending good time with us! We're all kind of crazy about her, and are looking forward to all this good friend time!!

While Matt's still gone, we have an IWU professor coming to teach, the Heckman's get back for a 2.5 week stint and a team of five from Waco, Texas, come for a week to help Phil keep this new classroom building MOVING!

So it's a good time to be healthy, and for the ground to stand firm.

Thankful that He does, regardless!