It's good to be a kid, it's better to be a kid with a rope swing and a friend!
Here is another child with an egg shell growing plants. When you show interest here with the children (like everywhere), they grab onto it and want to show you more. To me that's one of the most important things about raising kids... When you tell them what you like, you'll get more of it.
Most every day it's necessary for someone from the orphanage to drive around and visit the stores that donate food to us. Most times, the food is at the end of its ability to sell, but not always. New tortillas are also picked up in abundance. They are made specifically to donate to us. There are many, many kind people in this world.
My friend and I went for a moto ride to pickup parts that I needed to make some repairs. I spend more time purchasing the parts than fixing anything here. It typically necessitates 2 or more trips for any single repair. This was my first ride on the motorcycle and because the repair took so long, I hadn't even thought about the headlight on the motorcycle. Well, night came and I drove home in the dark. It's always exciting to drive on a cobblestone road (that was made 100 years ago and is missing rocks), but to add being on a moto AND it being night. Oh, the adventures here!
They had me add heavy metal screens to the top windows of one house to keep anyone from looking in. Roof work is always best to do early in the morning or late in the day due to the heat. Most days are 90º here.
The government here inspects the houses for safety. One of my projects today was to add a strap to the gas tanks (for cooking) and change the feed tube from flexible to stiff pipe.
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When you have time to stop and think, you can ponder things that God brings to your mind. Here is something that I heard last week that has been resonating in my head...
It’s the second thought and the first action that’s the sin.
We all have thoughts that are wrong. They can be selfish, mean, nasty or hurtful. It’s very normal to have an impure thought.
I use to beat myself up for having those impure thoughts, then better understood Christianity and the “fall of man”. That helped me understand that “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” There ain't nobody that doesn't sin.
When it comes to the kids that live here in the orphanage, my guess is that this statement applies to their parents as well. No one wants their child to be separated from them or wants to have the inability to care for them.
Perhaps the parents didn’t stop at the “first thought” and proceeded into the “second thought” and deeper into the “first action” that led them to this place where the authorities had to become involved for the child’s safety or it could be that the parent just realized that they were no longer able to care for them.
First thoughts do not make you a bad person, we all have selfish, mean, nasty or hurtful first thoughts.
Be careful today…
It’s the second thought and the first action that’s the sin.
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