3/5/10 7:20PM
Uganda; day 66

It has been one of those days, when one thing goes wrong it seems that everything goes wrong.

The water was shut off at the home, there was no money to pay the bill so they disconnected it. The power has been out all day, and the internet is also down. Just as I was discussing using the last of the home’s emergency money on beans for the children, and water that they can buy and carry back in containers. I was told one of the girls has a serious case of malaria and needs treatment. The children will be out of beans in 3 days, which leaves them with maize flour, they boil it in water to make porridge, or posha. It’s not very nutritious, or good, but at least it’s better then no food at all.

It is discouraging times like these where I have to keep running James 1: 2-4 through my head “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”

I definitely feel that we’re being tested here at the home. I do have faith that God will provide, as He has promised, and proven repeatedly. I just pray that it is sooner rather than later.

-Brandi