You Can’t Leave Until It’s Clean; A New Revelation of Eternity
The term ends at the end of November, and the guys get to go home for a
month. Provided of course, that the dorm passes inspection by
an external inspector. We began with a hope that the dorm would be clean
enough to call the inspector right after lunch, and then struggled with the
idea that the boys would be done by the time they got to college.
Eighth grade guys (ok, all males) but eighth grade guys especially
believe that the cleaning fairies will come and do the cleaning for them if
they only believe, and they must express their beliefs by wandering about
aimlessly and asking `Is it done yet?’ in
hopeful tones. We won the award on campus for being the last dorm cleared to go,
but thankfully, we did pass and they are home with their parents.
If you are like me, you sometime look for reasons not to exercise. We
had another virus pass through the campus the last week of school, and several
dozen kids were sick, including
Elephants.
Right outside our campus, a herd of elephants were ANGRY, and chasing
anyone who got near them. We haven’t had
elephants before. We get lots of baboons and monkeys, but elephants were a new
phenomenon, and it seemed like a worthy reason to sleep in.
We had a British family over for Thanksgiving. This was an actual
conversation with their daughter the week before:
Me: You are coming to our house for Thanksgiving!!
Her: What is Thanksgiving?
As the school year in
(The computer lab is a used shipping
container)
When I made an announcement to the teachers about the lab, they
couldn’t believe it. One teacher told me he had prayed for a miracle, but
he had not expected anything this great.
My favorite Christmas song is Good King Wenceslas, and my favorite part
is the end: They who now shall bless the poor shall themselves
find blessings. I think of you guys when I hear it, and I pray that
you have been as blessed as you have blessed.
I am the most unlikely person in the world to be doing this stuff, but
I heard two stories this week that made me realize that He uses people where they
are. Duanne’s journey to
Last month there was a terrible car accident, and a young woman became
a paraplegic because of it. They called Duanne and
his wife, and they were able to minister to her in a way that no one else could
have. She was comforted, and accepted the eternal Hope into her heart. What they
had gone through changed the young woman forever.
Nancy and I were babysitting today, and heard the story of an abandoned
three pound baby. His cries were too weak for anyone to hear, and so he was
going to die.
But the ants descended on him. And as they began to feast on him, his
cries became loud enough that he was found and saved. The ants, which could
have been a curse, saved him.
He even uses ants. He even uses me.
Your pal,
Steve
Stateside
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