I hope you are doing well.
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| Photo Credit: Mine ~ Sunset from downtown Vancouver hotel one summer night |
I am keeping busy and still behind schedule. So many things to do but not much get up and go to do them. I will get there just a bit slowly it seems.
I wanted to thank those of you who prayed and those of you who gave to help the young Kenyan mother who lost her baby at 31 weeks. If you are new to my blog or haven't visited in awhile, you may read the story here. A few blogging friends and I have been trying to help the young mom get out of hospital. Other friends in Kenya have also held two fundraisers but the mom remains in hospital.
Yes! She is still there. In Kenya you are not allowed to leave hospitals until you have fully cleared the bills. This bill was very high and we haven't quite managed to clear it. But it is much closer than it was to being cleared and fortunately for this humble family they have had outside support as well as community support. I'm sure it makes the load of the hardship a little less heavy.
Please continue to say a prayer for this mother and her young family. As you can imagine, it isn't good to have had to be in hospital all this time. She should be with her family members all of whom live two hours away. She has a husband and another child who need her and they need to grieve together as a family. Sadly, she was in hospital when her unborn child was released for burial.
I had another friend contact me last night for prayer. His mother-in-law (MIL) went missing when she went to try and seek medical help as she wasn't feeling very well. I think she was probably a bit delirious and lost her way somehow. My friend and his wife live several hours away from this woman and her husband. So I prayed and they prayed. Thank God the MIL was found today. She is now in hospital being treated for typhoid. Typhoid is a very serious disease and hopefully she will fully recover with the help of medicine.
Today many around the world are celebrating Valentine's Day. I hope you all have a blessed day and that you a get an opportunity to show your loved ones (or they you) just how much they mean to you.
A life worth living is one filled with faith, hope and love.
We never know exactly how long we have left here on earth or what tomorrow holds.
Today we may have abundance and tomorrow we may have lack.
Today we may have beautiful shelter. Tomorrow we may lose our home due to man made or natural disaster.
Today we may have health but tomorrow we may get the dreaded news that we are sick.
Today we may have a wonderful job. Tomorrow we might be redundant and given the "pink slip".
Today we may have loved ones all around us. Tomorrow something might happen to one of us.
Today we may enjoy reading, writing or crafting. Tomorrow we may lose our sight.
Today we may enjoy hearing and watching television, talking on the phone, listening to music. Tomorrow we may lose our hearing.
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| Graphic credit: Lovely & Beautiful |
Today we might have hope and opportunities, something to give us faith in the future and love in the meantime. Tomorrow these might not be present.
Today you may be able to share your good abundance with others. Tomorrow you may need them to share their abundance with you.
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Even a bag of seeds is so precious. Especially to a small, barefoot child a half a world away who has never had a chance to go to school, who sleeps on a dirt floor, who doesn't know the security of clean water to drink, or a meal every day to fill his empty belly.
He clutches tightly to this donated bag of fertilizer that his mother will plant in hopes of keeping her children fed.
He clutches tightly to this donated bag of fertilizer that his mother will plant in hopes of keeping her children fed.
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| Photo Credit ~ Jonah, Missions of Hope, Kenya |
Let's live a life of gratitude daily for the things many of us take for granted.
If you are reading this, or know how to read, you are one of the many blessed of the world's people.
"Sympathy is no substitute for action."~ Dr. David Livingstone, missionary to Africa
