Wow. I wish I could capture the joy that yesterday was. The people that visited, the Facebook postings, the emails, the telephone calls, and those who in several different venues prayed over me and gave me incredible words of affirmation in this difficult time. Some of this is my wife’s doing. She was the one who contacted several people and told them that it was my birthday. She gave me a great gift through them. A true sense of community…
Now in the third month of this crisis the difficulties are starting to be felt. Although the violence does not touch everyone, the shortages, prices and lost jobs do. In the past the poorest people were able to get handouts from those who did have money. Now people who were able to take care of their families and give to the poor, find themselves in the same situation as the poor. As this situation progressed in the first months, the…
My desire is to encourage faith and not fear, to look up and not out, to look at Christ and not the troubled water. Fear leads to nothing more than discouragement and it demoralizes. It doubts God. Faith on the other hand focuses on the source of our hope, the strength of our lives, and He who is in control all things, the One who created all things, the almighty God, our Lord Jesus Christ. Last night many young men…
I so want to thank all of you for your prayers. They have been answered. As many people warned us that there was no way to get through, that all the paths were blocked, we stepped out in faith. We left a day sooner as we heard reports that the road blocks were increasing in number and felt it would be wise to go sooner than later. We followed roads that were more paths than roads. I am so thankful…
I would like to share the fog that is our life. I am sure that many of you will have or are experiencing the same sense of fog in your life. We live day by day and sometimes hour by hour. Natalie is returning to the States because we don’t know if we wait a day or two that it might not be possible to get to the airport. We are making hard decisions in a situation that is very…