Hi friends! I hope you all are having a great week. I wasn't going to say anything today, just post Mike's blogpost for his second day in Sakete and I had to stop and share some things. Things are moving along quite quickly with the rental process and I am signing a lease agreement this weekend for a couple to start renting my house beginning April 12th. Only 2 short weeks ago. My house is a DISASTER and I just don't really know how it's all going to come together. Add all of that mess on top of trying to figure out when I'd be heading over to Benin on my long-term commitment, meeting with missions boards at various churches, putting together speaking engagements to raise awareness of Arbre de Vie and trying to get our Stateside non-profit's website up and running by helping Ashley fill it with content and I just have found myself really tired this week. And my mind has been racing. Literally filling up with what needs to be done and when it needs to get done by and before some friends came over to help me pack tonight I decided to sit down and post Mike's journal entry he had sent me and the words from his devotional spoke directly to my heart. It's as if the Lord is just looking down, smiling, wondering once again when I'll stop trying to worry about every single detail that lies ahead and continue trusting Him daily. "Tomorrow is busy worrying about itself; don't get tangled up in its worry webs. Trust ME one day at a time." Okay God. You've got my full attention and that's exactly what I'll continue to do...
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Good morning! Or should I say Bonjour! This morning's devotional states, "Tomorrow is busy worrying about itself; don't get tangled up in its worry webs. Trust ME one day at a time."
This morning started off with a run with Ashley through Sakete (dirt trail, goats, chickens, and little kids yelling). The little kids kept yelling out "A-E-bo", which means white person, as we ran by. Ashley and I held some good conversation on the run, in which I took something from. Some words of wisdom, "You will never see the true affirmation from people until you are in heaven and see the mark you left."
After the run we headed to the orphanage and started to get some work done. We painted varnish on the window panes front and backside of them for the new dorm the children are preparing to move into. While doing that kids started to arrive back at the orphanage after walking back from school 1.5mi for lunch. Before they even sat down their bags or grabbed lunch they came up to the adults and greeted them. Upon finishing their lunch, instead of taking a nap before going back to school at 3pm the kids came and helped paint or just stayed closed and asked questions. It's amazing to see how involved the kids want to be helping with the process of getting the new building finished.
Jon and I worked till dinner and then we ate with the kids. After dinner it was study time in the gazebo. As the sun started to go down and it started getting dark out, it was time to start the gas generator to get some electricity so homework could get done. One problem about that was that one of the boys that was helping paint at lunch, it was his job to grab gas for the generator today and he forget. That didn't stop homework from being done, the kids grabbed battery flashlights that were purchased for them and they studied outside that way.
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