A Double Portion

If you will remember it was the prophet Elisha that ask for a double portion of what Elijah had.  Well today we received our double portion.  First, the swimming pool at the camp where the children currently are located was repaired and they put water in it Tuesday and today they allowed the children to get in and swim.  I will tell you this is single most highlight of their summer, they absolutely enjoyed it.  While Theodore and Joy did not stay with us, but went to the pool, we would not do anything to begrudge them of this joy.  They don’t have anything to do as this camp so this pool is a really big deal to them.  There were two smaller boys they would not allow to get in because they are too small so out came two pads loaded with games they got to play on all by themselves with no older children trying to take it from them or telling them what to do.  It was a small thing for us but a big thing to these two young boys.

The second was one of the nicest thing that has happened to us since we have been here.  The people who own the hotel we are staying at invited us to their home for dinner.  They came and picked us up in their car took us to their home, grilled some pork and chicken served with vegetables from their garden and some wonderful fruit.  I don’t know what they seasoned the meat with but I will tell you it was absolutely delicious.  They were so hospitable and even though our language and theirs is different we found a way to communicate.    

The hotel we are staying at this time is the same hotel we stayed in last year when we were here and we enjoyed it so much we knew we would stay here again for this adoption journey.  Also during our stay last year we became friends with them it was so good to see them again this year.  Their young son is such a well-mannered and talented young man and tonight during our visit we got a private concert from him.  He plays the saxophone and the song he performed for us was an old favorite by none other than Stevie Wonder, I just called. 

The only fear we had is this country enjoys their drinks and we knew we could not be a part of it and we just kept praying that God would help us get through this evening without offending our hosts.  Well it was God I know that helped in this matter because when they got here to pick us up this evening they asked us what we wanted to drink and they called off many things and we just said water.  They looked at us surprised but they honored our reply.   Some may think I am a long way from home and no one would know, but God would and for me that is all the reason for me to be faithful to him.  I want to stand blameless before him some day and I want to hear him say to me “Thou good and faithful servant, thou have fought a good fight and finished the course, enter ye in to the kingdom of heaven.” I pray that you have the same prayer and goal in your spiritual life.