Water and power are back! Going without for just a short while really makes us thankful for the daily things we take for granted! Thank you for the prayers! We've been keeping busy at Karanda, as usual. We'll send a longer update this weekend, as Paul is not on call :-) Until then, here are some of the beautiful faces of children who we've been blessed by during our time here.
"Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”" Matt 19:14
"Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand." Isaiah 64:8
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb." Psalm 139:13
"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27
"Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom." Psalm 145:3
A great Abbi story to end with. Abbi always asks "Why?" "Why?" Why? She often asks us "why we are here?" or "why did we leave our Iowa house (and come to Africa?)" We try not to ignore her and to be very honest about answering all of her "why's". We try to explain to her that we are here to tell people and "show" people love because Jesus loves them. Simple enough for a child to get. On the way to one of her friend, Jo Jo's, house yesterday Abbi had her hands full of "things," one of them being her Bible. I tried to reason with her that we were coming right back and she could leave some of them behind. She very urgently explained to me that she had to have her Bible. "Mom, I know God loves Jo Jo, and I have to tell him. And I need my Bible to show him!" Wow - she gets it! OK, how do you argue with that?
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