This week has been calmer than last, and the arrangements have been made for my Grandfather's Memorial Service on Saturday. I feel incredibly lucky to have been able to come home and be with family during this time. I've already mentioned that before, but it has been an unexected blessing, and I'm taking advantage of it (as well as the spring weather!) Thank you again for your prayers...my Dad especially feels them and honestly believes in them.
There has been a slight change of plans, instead of returning to Ecuador, I will be spending a couple months in Costa Rica at the center that the church visits each year. I will be working there with the missionaries Mary and Marion Woods, as well as Steve Semler, with different VIM teams that come through and helping with the ministries and projects they are involved in. (Their website is http://www.costaricamethodist.org/index.html). The Lord has put that place and the people on my heart for a long time now.
This was not what I was expecting or where I thought I would be going, but then again everything has seemed to turn out a little different than I thought. I have been reminded this week and the past couple weeks of the scripture in Ecclesiastes (11:5) that reads "As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things." What a comfort to know that no matter what, HE is still at work. When God leads somewhere, He doesn't do it to abandon us but to fufill His plan through us. What an amazing concept...
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