The child jumped and hit his metal pan against my window on the bus.*Clink.* And I was out of candy. They *tap* your arm. They hit the window. His metal pan came back up to smack the window again but made it in between the bars and hit my ribcage.*Thump.* A nearby bus conductor chased him off. And off he went. To beg some more. To try and make enough earnings for the day. To “work his side of the street.�
And go back to what? A home? Or the old creeper he probably works for. And what could possibly be waiting for him there? I don’t know what his night will look like. But I know where he’ll be the next day. *Clink. Tap. Clink.*
So this week has been long and pretty tiring, but really good. In one of the slums we moved into our new flat and it’s AWESOME and such a God send. New and younger girls have started coming since they are still on holiday and it’s been so awesome getting to know them and just see them relax and freely talk. So that’s where we go in the mornings, then we bus to the other slum for evening’s Tuition, where we are having a week of Vacation Bible School. We’ll be doing this until preschool starts up on the 9th, then we’ll just be going to just one place again.
God is doing such awesome things in Goa! At the slum where we have Tuition, we also have women’s Nutrition class once a week, they are all either Hindu or Muslim, and God is really working on those ladies hearts! After class any of them can hang back afterwards if they have something they want us to pray for, and one week there was this lady who wanted us to pray for her headaches, and for healing and stuff, and God of course was going to heal her! So next week she had the testimony to share that after we prayed she was healed! And then after THAT week’s class two women stayed back for us to pray for their brothers because they cause fights with the family and one of them was a heavy drinker and would get violent and all that. They said that they believed that if we prayed it would help them, and so we prayed and afterwards these women are just crying these beautiful tears! God is SO good. I know God will help them. I’m so excited for this Tuesday to see them!
“Mortal, can these bones live? I answered, O Lord God, You know.” — Ezekiel 37:3
You know Lord! That should always be our answer. I like to imagine that Ezekiel’s answer with “O Lord God, You know” was probably kind of like our “Um duh, of course You can!” He just knew. He believed God could do it. Sometimes our circumstances probably look like a valley of dry bones, but questioning God’s ability to make the dry bones live shouldn’t be in the equation. “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.”…Ok God. I’ll talk to these dry bones. Because YOU know they can live. You know. Isn’t God just AWESOME? Yeah…He is.
And so on that note I think I will leave you with this juicy verse:
“Now therefore take YOUR STAND and see this great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes.” — 1 Samuel 12:16
Love, Meghan
