Rain Pours Down

Life here is so BIG and I have been experiencing a BIGGER God here than every before. It has been tremendously life-changing to be in a place where God is the center of everything and I am the center of nothing. Even though life here is very fast pace, there is a calm serenity that follows me throughout my day and gives me a peace that surpasses all understanding. God is my stronghold in whom I take refuge.

Yesterday baby Nicole Ailyn came in with her mom, dad and big brother for her one week baby check-up. She is the baby that surprised us all by crowning in her own "timely fashion" which sent us helter-skelter running into the room just in time to see the amniotic fluid hit the wall and pour onto the bed, followed quickly by her blue-tinted, wriggling body! It is overwhelming to hold such a precious gift of life in your arms and pour prayers into her.

Baby Ailyn and her family on her one week baby check-up at Mercy

Studying Visayan, ( language) on the porch of my house; we have three lessons a week My neighbours, the view from the porch. If you look closely you can see a white sign that says Mercy Maternity Center that shows people where to turn off Dakudao onto our street.

We are in the middle of the rainy season and for the last couple of nights, when and Davao is already tucked in for bed and the warm streelights cast their glow, the rain pours down. Fervently, the army pounds on our roof tops and roars in our ears. Everything surrenders and becomes thoroughly soaked and it feels as if time stands still . At times like this......we go running. Through the night we add the pounding of our feet to the pounding of the rain and I think of the awesome power of God. As the rain drenches our clothes and streams off our faces my heart sings with thankfulness for his abounding, cleansing mercy. There is something absolutely freeing about returning home, dripping and refreshed after a long run with God.

Love Kinshasa