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Sharing cookies and stresses
Posted on Friday, May 4, 2007 at 06:40 - Post Comment
I finally took David Ng'a ng'a to the eye hospital. Salome, his sister and Mirriam the teacher at LL with me. Good news.... It is just serious alergies and can be corrected and maintained with eye drops. We had a good time together and I want to tell a story about what happened while we were there. We had to wait outside the waiting room so another woman who was waiting offered Salome a package of 2 small "sandwich" type cookies so Salome opened the package and offered me one!!! She probably gets cookies once a year and she offered me one of the two.. Later the same lady offered David one and he , not knowing that his sister already had some , opened his package and broke the cookie in half and gave half to her and broke the other one in half for Mirriam and I !!! He got 1/2 a cookie!! I was blown away by this and told him he was a good young man. Then I went and bought then both a soda (another treat) to reward them!!! It was a good day and when we got back to their home we visited with their mother who was working in the garden when we showed up. You would never know that this woman is sick with a deadly disease but I guess when you have 8 children to feed you find the strength to throw that hoe over your head and back down into the hard soil. Other news.... we went to Moffat chapel to hear our friend, student David Rehani preach on 1 kings 19 (elijah fearly Jezebel and God comforting him and leading him through his trials). He used our friend Terry B as an example and his own troubles in facing civil war in his home country of Congo. He did an awesome job and we were proud of him and thinking Terry would be upset that he dared to compare her "light trials" to his trials of watching his people being murdered around him. But God gives grace to all in all trials. PTL. I especially needed to hear the sermon as we have had own our trials and stresses here in our world. But God is faithful and I am still trying to be faithful and trusting and loving to those who wrong me. God has shown me I need to stay strong in my love towards those who act in ways I find hurtful. To be honest , these past few days I have struggle to even like the very people we have been called to love and serve, There have been some bright lights that continue to shine but we have had more then our share of let downs. But again God has given me the renewed strength to carry on and may he find us faithful in word and deed.....
Salome
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 5, 2007 at 03:45 - Link
Hiya, Ellen...
Sherrill here. I was so blessed to read of Salome's generousity with the cookies!! How wonderful is that!! And to hear the good report of Ng'a ng'a's eyes. That is a praise!!
Our Susannah and I were talking only yesterday of the very different trials we have here compared to others in other parts of the world; and yet, God uses all things ...whatever comes into our lives or whatever He Himself brings into our lives...to conform us to His image. He is faithful and determined to conform us to the image of our wonderful Saviour, Jesus. So, continue to bow the knee and thank Him for all things ( I know, easy for me to say as I sit here in the comfort of my home). In your blog, you made comment about the trials you go through there; this Scripture came to my mind...."'to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, in all lowliness, gentleness, with longsuffering bearing with oneanother in love" Eph. 4:2 ....that's what we want to do, hey.
Well, Ellen, take good care~~
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