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It was fun watching Jorgen initiate a conversation with this little guy at the market today about how many pesos were needed for a kilo of carrots. They settled on eight pesos, which would be just over two pounds for 42 cents.🤣

Nineteen-year old Lars taking a break from his chemistry homework to help three-year old Jorgen with his alphabet homework. My heart nearly stops in these poignant moments for I know how quickly it all goes and how easily it’s all forgotten. I can’t believe these two with their 16-year gap and their other brother and sister are mine, or as we all know, are truly His. Nor can I believe I’m still trying to figure out what it means to be their best mother in my limited strength and personality. I’ve far more mercy towards my own mother with each passing year for I know now how hard this is and how most of us seek desperately the heart of Jesus every single day for a wisdom and a capacity beyond our own. We do and give our best in the light of received revelation, wistfully mindful that we will probably see clearer the way after we’ve walked it. But it is our faith, not our perfection that we live by and it is in remembering what will be in that shimmering eternal city to come, which pulls us ever forward. We fail—oh good gracious I do ever so much and live oh too earnestly—but we fail forward. Hope catches us and reminds us that everything that has been and will be, belongs to Him. All these moments in His safekeeping, all these moments never lost under His gaze. All of us mothers, our yearnings for these our children, heard loud and clear by their eternal Father.

Their date night💝

Our littlest Spanish speaker with our beloved friend, having an evening chat on a curb.💗

I’m ever on the lookout for the expressions of the love of God. Sometimes I get culturally so very weary and the brown dusty desert takes a toll on a soul that needs green. Some days I feel anything but remembered and encouraged. I grow faint, not in my faith but in my strength. My weakness and lack always tether me back to Jesus. Don’t yours and isn’t this good? Today I needed just a bit more light, just a small reminder that following Him here means something to His heart and those He loves in this dust bowl of a town. A familiar voice was just heard, “Hola, amiga. Pensé que hoy necesitabas flores. Descansa y disfruta de su belleza.” She walked all the way down to the market and back to set these in my lap. She did what she could and spent the little I know she has to bring me snap dragons wrapped in newspaper. Such glory in the small things. Keep in His love today friends, held fast and firm.

Remarkable what God has been doing these last couple of weeks as Ben has been teaching @walkthruthebible, a survey of the Old Testament at an orphanage, drug rehabilitation centers, and a church plant. Many have in repentance professed faith in Jesus alone for salvation! Many more have committed to reading the Bible daily and have re-committed their lives to the lordship of Christ. Pray for Ben as he continues to teach locally –in early February, he’ll be in a prison and a church. He’s also out in villages once a month, leaving on a trip this next week. Pray as he teaches the Word, distributes print Bibles to those who read Spanish and audio Scripture devices to those who need to hear the Word of God in their heart language that many more come into the Kingdom and grow spiritually strong! Thank you to all who have given generously and sacrificially towards the audio Scripture devices. Praise Him! May we all live to honor God ALONE as His faithful and diligent sons and daughters and cheer along those who are doing likewise. We’ve no time for anything less as we live in the incredible promise of the return of the King.