Today, yesterday and all the days that are before us we look to Yahweh - our God, to see us through. Life as we could of never imagined is on a continual roll forward, without a pause in view. So we confidently look to Yahweh, and know that He will make a way, and His glory will come down and transform the hearts of His people. These next four months, that is, until sweet little Isabella joins us (baby bump pictured above) we are giving it all we have to give through the grace of God. I recently started teaching our staff english, after months of requesting, we have made a firm tight schedule that I am willing to commit to - with the purpose to believe and pour into them that they in return can give all they have to give to our children. Some can't write, stopping to study during elementary school... but they love to be in a school setting, and more so to be challenged. Who is to tell them, they can't better themselves... just because they were overtaken by poverty at such a young age? With the staff, there has been an unbelievable transformation of transparency, humility and unity... openess and expressions of the heart - culturally, not normal and most times not accepted. I can only beleive it's the love of Christ working in their hearts, and as they are shown more and more love... they love more, they love deeper.
.On to the interestingly funny pictures of Kai naked on our blog...! Yesterday, I was in a meeting with the staff and one of our girls was watching Kai. In the mountains, many times the babies go without diapers - so I can only imagine that when his diaper was full, she took it off and put his clothes back on without one. :o) When Isai came after work, we headed home and he put Kai on his shoulders as a proud Papa would... until he realized a stench, secondly pee and poop all over his neck! We then stripped Kai and they both showered, but it gave us one good laugh! Malaki loved it and found humor in it all, more so than his Papa I can imagine! All our love, from Burundi!
Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Burundi? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Burundi in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez