December
23, 2011 (Day 1305) 9:21am
Sometimes you have to stop what you are doing and just praise the
Lord! Every
so often, I find myself wondering. How are we going to be able to do
this? Then the question becomes, after
looking over all the resources that I have, how is God going to provide this
time? Yesterday was one of those moments for me. We have a local
woman who makes the uniforms for our older children that leave campus for
schooling. The school year in Honduras runs from February to November, so
it is that time of year to start planning for school to start. This
coming February, we will have 37 children of our 79 that are attending off
campus schooling. This is a huge expense for us right now. Uniforms
alone will cost $2000 to $2500 this year! Add to that the bus fares
for those 37 plus school shoes plus books plus paper plus activities plus (oh,
you got the point already…sorry, sometimes I get carried away). Back to the story, yesterday the uniform lady
came to FH and spent a couple hours measuring all the kids. Then, she told Teresa that she needed to
start right away, but would need about 10,000LPS. I asked Teresa if that included the
purchasing of the shirts and the monograms, and she said, “No, that will be
extra.” I know that we have to do this,
but where am I going to come up with $2500.
God has blessed
this year, but with rising costs here in Honduras. The last few months have been very tight (no
extras). Now, I needed to come up with a
substantial amount of money right now. I
had just enough to cover the initial payment in the last of my discretionary money
available. Well not quite enough, I was
45LPS short (about $2.60 short). I gave
Teresa the money and said a little prayer.
That was it. Where is the rest
going to come from? I sure hope that we
do not have any unexpected expenses. I
just kept thinking, “and my God shall supply your every need according to his
riches in glory through Christ Jesus.”
Okay, God, the ball is in your court.
This morning in
my email inbox there is an email from a good friend of FH. He said and I quote, “Christmas
is here and I just had someone to stop by and Give you $5000.00 to
be used for the kids. If you could let me know where it will be used I
can let them know.” Wow, I just had to smile and shake my head
and praise God because God did it again! Maybe the bigger question is why
was I so surprised? It is not like God
hasn’t done things like this before. It
is not like God doesn’t have the resources.
I am so grateful
for all the people that let God use them to meet our needs here at FH as we
take care of the children that God has sent us. Merry Christmas, no worries, our God can (you
can fill in the blank)! Rodney
