Learning To Go Without

It's sometimes the little things I've been taking for granted. Like getting access to snacks, or a fresh piece of fruit, or not having to spend the first 30 minutes of my morning boiling all the water I'll need for the day. But sometimes, its the larger things that I notices. Like EVERY night this week when we seem to lose electricity somewhere between 6pm and 8pm for the evening. Its ironic, only because I do notice the electricity because the lights flicker all the time and it's an unregulated 240V system (for the nerds out there). Its also ironic because we live next door to the electrical substation for the city. Mozambique I guess has a fairly developed electricity system because it exports a lot of it to neighboring countries. And with the electricity comes the internet, which we have at the orfonato, but never seems to work on the two days a week I try to use it.

Still, what I am not taking for granted are the ways that God seems to be providing seemingly out of nowhere. Like today, I was very upset over a TV station that came to interview the orphanage. The TV station is owned by the makers of KLIN (pronounced: clean) and they brought their klin truck and music jukebox and product placement banners and klin go-go dancers. It was pretty sleazy, because they came to entertain (for lack of a better word) the kids for a couple hours by dressing as hookers (its was really bad) and dancing for everybody for two hours.

In the midst of being disgusted at the obscene product placement and slutty go-go dancers, I learned that they brought a small donation of soap and $500. We went from having no money at the start of the week, to God making a way despite slutty product placement girls.

Still, be praying for some long-term answers to prayer, namely that God would:
1)Help us with the water. We've been drilling wells for almost two weeks and people are coming out on Monday to test the health of the water and what quantity we'd be able to get.
2) Find a new location for the septic tank. We've spent a week laboring over digging septic tank for the dorm, but we can't place it next to the well. It needs to be about 3meters deep, and at 2meters I hit quartz. Very hard to dig through.
3) Help us with the every increasing problem of money. The truck has not been bringing in as much work as in needed to help buy supplies and construction materials.