Tuesday

Tuesday, March 19

“He went out not knowing where he was going.”Hebrew 11:8

“Abraham believed God” Romams 4:3

Believing God. This is the sash on my tunic and I tighten it this morning. Mr. Chambers tells me today that a life of faith is not knowing where I am being led but knowing the One Who leads. Faith is rooted in a Person. Jesus.

I often fear that I am being naive. And this may be true but I think my true naivete is in my shallowness in believing God and not in the possibilities of this world.

Here’s to a day of faith, tested and true, built on the one true God.

We arrive at clinic in the same church, CBI and Stephen is asked to lead us in devotions today:

Allow us to step into Your purposes. Into our divine moments. The word moment, comes from the Greek word for Atom. There is great power when one splits the atom and there is great power in moments realized.

On my way to the bathroom, I see three preteen boys huddled around a phone playing a Sonic game. When I talk to them in English, they become all shy and hide the game. I tell them I’ve seen that before but because, of course, I cannot speak Spanish, they just giggle. Later, they greet me at the bottom of the stairs and we manage to figure some things out. Their names are Edgar, Josue, and Gerard and they are friends. Edgar is 12, Josue is 13 and Gerard is 14. I tell them that my son is 12 and I show them a picture of Jose and his baseball uniform. They call Jose my Miho and right they are. Later, Josue finds me to say goodbye.

Dr. Roger is my table partner again. He is given a bag of little girl sunglasses to give out and so he begins with his patient zero. Soon after several other little girls come running back. As Roger looks up, I tell him they want sunglasses as if he needed me to translate. Realizing my mistake, we all laugh. Roger asks if we have switched jobs and now I translate for him.

Asly comes to me. She is a 10 year old girl and has a stomach ache. As I take her hands in mine, Mama immediately tells me that she has trouble with sweaty hands. Asly hands are cold, clammy and dripping wet as if she had just washed them. Mama says they are always like that. In school, she soaks the paper when she writes. After a consult with Dr. Nate and Dr. Roger, it is decided that Asly has hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating. It most often affects post puberty children, so in one so young as Asly, it may be an indication of an underlying systemic problem. She will need follow up of both medical and prayer.

Pastor Joel, from the service on Sunday, joins us in clinic today and I am asked to tell him about Keni. He tells me that he already knows the family because they worship here. He tells me that he met them on the way to another church. While he was traveling to the other church, his car was surrounded by gang members and God sent a woman, who was like an angel. She dispersed the gang members. Keni’s father has been coming here ever since. He and his wife are new followers of Jesus.

Pastor says that dad is an alcoholic and a security guard which means he has a gun. Pastor knows it can be volatile at home and has been working with him. He thanks me for my report about Keni so he can help the whole family.

I tell him that yesterday my heart was feeling so powerless for Keni. I tell him that because of his sermon, I asked God to button up my tunic and make a way. And, then today, I see He has already done it.

Stephen’s words take form before me. How powerful is a moment realized through God’s beautiful provision of this precious man. A faithful man of God who is so open to the One Who leads him and so humble and kind as to thank me in return.

He and I may not know where God will lead us but surely we can know He Who does the leading.

“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us…!”

I John 3:1