Day 4 - Wednesday:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord:
We didn’t get to the pouring of the slabs
today. We moved many wheelbarrow loads of fill for the foundations. We have learned that the work usually progresses and is
measured by standards to which we are unaccustomed back in Milton or
elsewhere on construction projects we have undertaken back in the States. We are reminded that we are here to “let our
light shine” by serving the people of Honduras as God prefers, which is different than
showing them how we prefer to serve.
This afternoon before we left to go back to the hotel, we had the
opportunity to visit and pray with a lady who had lost her father
recently. We prayed for God’s peace,
comfort and provision for the lady and her family. While at the lady’s home, we witnessed the
residents of the village working together along their dirt street to install
the first plumbing system in the history of the village again with tools we
would consider primitive. (It was just March of this year that the village
first had the luxury of electricity.)
Earlier
in the day we had experienced digging a footer in the ground for a small
front porch that each home will have across the front. The black ground was as hard or harder than
any hard pan soil most of us had ever seen.
It was so hard that a pick ax was required to break it up before we
could even dent it with a shovel that creaked and bent as we pried at the
earth.
The focus and determination of
the residents to make their village a better place to live is remarkable and
heartwarming. Whether or not we get to
pour a slab tomorrow, we pray that our final day in the village will bring glory to God and be a testimony to the love of Christ in our lives.
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