It's Sunday afternoon, as I write today and try to get caught up. These events happened over 2 weeks ago... but today's words from Matthew 6:25.... connect.
"Take no thought for your life" and Matthew 6:30...
"If God so clothes the grass of the fields... shall he not much more clothe you?"
Patrick took us to see where Boy lives after church... Samuel Clark was also
with us... He and his family are moving back home and it seems all of these folks
are dealing with the above verses close at hand right now.
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| Look how He dressed these fields! |
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| Patrick leads the way to Boy and Igor's house... While we were home over Christmas their baby sister (about 1 year old) went to be with Jesus. A simple eye infection...but no medicine available. I wanted to talk to her parents so Patrick and I tried to find them. Sadly, death and life go hand in hand here and with it there is little time for grief. The baby is now clothed in garments white as snow. Even in death He provides...for even his littlest ones. |
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| Serious Patrick |
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| The view from their house... They can see the school where Patrick will soon be with Kofi and Cynthia. (the blue roofs in the distance) |
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| Some friends on the walk... Banana trees are well dressed! |
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| This little girl even strokes the leaves gently! |
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| Here comes Boy.... I hadn't seen him since the first of Dec. He was so excited and so was I.... Unfortunately, his parents weren't home. |
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| He was also SO EXCITED to see Bruce! |
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| But when it was time to go... Boy was not happy.... Igor his big brother was trying to console him. It was great to be with them again.. We will have to come back soon to see their folks. |
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| On our return, Samuel saw this lady harvesting peanuts so we stopped to take pictures.  |
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| Samuel checking the quality of the peanuts.... |
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| And posing for a picture. |
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| Going back through the countryside from Patrick's new home was so beautiful. |
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| Getting across the valley on foot! I don't think I'd step on this bridge, would you? |
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| Life isn't easy here for most.... yet there is such joy! |
Ok, they aren't lilies... but they are sunflowers!!!
How much thought have you taken of your life today? Consider the
lilies... They just grow where they are put... do we? Grow where we are put, I mean.
Are you growing where the Lord has placed you? I can certainly say I'm growing in so many ways here... Experiencing the "much more" of life with many people that have "much less," is a rich and rewarding experience.
And so we go to school to visit Kofi and Cynthia in their new boarding school. Some members of my family and some friends along with us have donated enough funds to send my 3 students and friends to a private boarding school this year. What a huge blessing to them... Their gratefulness is never ending. I hadn't seen them before they went to school so Innocent and Ada and I went to see them shortly after I got back from the States.
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| On the way to their school. |
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| Kofi showed up first.... |
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| Looking very tall, thin and happy to see us and also, "smart" in his uniform. |
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| Cynthia finally got out of class and came down to visit to! |
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| I think Kofi took my camera and took this picture. We sat in the grass and talked a long time while they ate some snacks. We gave them their backpacks and they told us about school. Sounds like the guys are hard on the new "boys"--taking their soap, toothpaste, etc.. I guess it would be like an initiation. |
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| This is the front campus area. |
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| Kofi so hungry he is eating a candy and Cynthia and Innocent enduring the picture taking. Aren't their uniforms cute or "smart" as they say here? Next Sunday is the official visitation day so more on these guys later. Patrick will start school on Feb. 4th... the 6th graders just finished their testing so now they are allowed to advance. So we will bring him to school next week. |
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| The antenna up on the hill is near our house and so the kids can see it from their school. When we first met these kids i don't think we were thinking about looking for kids to send to school.... but they had been praying that they could go.. so the Lord sent us along and those who stand with us together -to meet this huge need in their lives. "Take no thought of your life.... God will provide".... in His time. |
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| Home in the aftenoon and this big bird showed up. |
"behold the fowls of the air"....God will look after their feathers.
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| And then the closing of the day... the sunset. |
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| Yet another reminder of what He gives us... Beautiful, restful things in His creation that give us pause of just how great He is! |
And He created this beauty for our enjoyment. Sometimes I wonder if all the beauty that surrounds us here isn't given especially to folks in this country who need to know the goodness, grace and mercy that only He can give. I've said it before and I'll say it again.... this is a spiritually rich nation..... A people who had much taken from them... who have had to take no thought for their lives.. and yet the Lord clothes them with "materially" beautiful clothes and spiritual blessings.
I'll close with an except from Oswald Chambers this week:
"A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognizing and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the Word of God, and life will become amazingly simple! "Consider", says Jesus, " how much more your Father Who clothes the grass of the field will clothe you, IF you keep your relationship right with him." Every time we have gone back in spiritual communinon it has been because we have impertinently known better than Jesus Christ. We have allowed the cares of the world to come in, and have forgotten the "MUCH MORE" of our Heavenly Father."
I trust that today will find you embracing the "Much More"
that the Lord provides for you!
He is all you need! He is "Much More" than any of us needs!
Take time to thank Him, today or this week for all the "Much Mores" in your life!
Take time to thank Him, today or this week for all the "Much Mores" in your life!
love,
margie
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