Miracles

Today I hit my wall.  Just ask Brett.  We spent the morning in and early afternoon in the hospital.  We woke up to Josee's finger looking like a balloon.  She smashed it in the metal front door.  Lucky for us, my hand was also hit, so it did not amputate it.  This was 3 days ago and today it was looking like a ballon that you use for balloon animals.  We called our contact David and said we needed to go to the hospital.  While there we decided to run malaria tests on both of the girls.

Long story short....  Josee has malaria again.  Natalie does not.

Did you notice the title of today's blog?  Miracles.  It was a miracle that Josee did not cut her finger off. It was a miracle that Josee smashed her finger and broke it so that we could see she has malaria again.  It was a miracle that the medicine we received from the pharmacy was not quinine.  It is something that tastes like coconut and easily swallowed.  Many miracles wrapped up in one broken finger.  (Oh yeah, the doctor said it was not broken, but it looks broken on the X-ray.

This trip has been full of miracles.  First of all these girls are alive.  They should be dead.  They are not.  These girls should be afraid of us.  They are not.  These girls should not show us love at this point.  They do.  This trip could have been on air miles, which would make it hard to leave earlier or later if needed.  This trip was funded by money we never expected.  Natalie is not currently sick with malaria.

I could go on and on.  Finally, the last miracle;  the girls let me lay down with them to help get them to sleep.  This is the first time ever.  That is a miracle worthy of singing about.  Hope you can't hear me, you will ask me to stop.

It took some down time today after all of the events to realize how many miracles have taken place.  I felt so distraught today I had to take a short nap just so I would not cry.  I also reached out to Brett.  Something I don't do easily.  The greatest thing happened when I did.  The moment I hit send, all of my worries washed away.  Maybe I should reach out more.  I was truly amazed.

Maybe this is part of my new perspective.  Maybe I just needed to say that I was not big enough to handle this on my own.  Still trying to use my wooden spoon.  Still trying to be Rambo or the Avengers. (Ok, that would be cool.  I am not sure who I want to be though).

Thanks for fasting and praying with us.  I think we spent more time fasting than praying.  Today was tough and there were many distractions.  Anyway, it was a day of miracles.  Lets keep praying this miracles in to being.  Valerie is going to talk with the embassy tomorrow to plead our case.  Lets pray that there are soft hearts and quick typing of visas for both us and Sheresa's family.

One picture today.

girls in their new sleep caps (best time of the day) bedtime