I have a friend that always says "may God bless your moments." Let me tell you about moments blessed. We knew it was gonna be a long and busy day. Thursdays are our "marathon" days, you know. We have double nightly programming and work until about 8. It started out at 7:45am with us realizing we forgot to request a vehicle because a couple of days before, we found out that there was no school on Friday so everything had to be moved to Thursday. When we moved everything, we forgot to move the vehicle request. Oops. The sponsorship team was all splitting up to do Kindergarten registration at three different schools, we had two sponsor visits, and had to do this all before lunch because school gets out.
We were so stripped that we literally relied on Lord. We had to. (And what a sweet place to be.) There was no one we could call, nothing our little human minds could conjure up, to fix our problems and make everything happen. You see, the thing is the Lord was working this out weeks in advance. Because the two sponsor visits just happened to be at schools that we were already going to for registration (Bercy and Leveque), there was a team leaving from main campus going to Leveque so we hopped on with them. Then, because of other circumstances, we were able to use someone else's vehicle to get to Bercy and then get back to main campus. When we were finished with what we had to do at Leveque, that car arrived to take us to Bercy. When we got to Bercy, there was a perfect amount of time to get the work done we needed and let the sponsor meet her student before school got out. When we had forgotten to do something, we found it had already happened. I literally said it out loud in awe, "He's supplying all of our needs!"
So as He supplies our needs, He blesses our moments. Brooke, Mr. Frenel, and I started the morning doing registration at Leveque. It was like Haiti picture day, and Brooke and I were the photographers! Haha. I wish with all my heart some outside person could have captured all this morning was. There were moms helping us get their little babies to look cute and smile for the crazy white girl with the camera screaming "souri souri souri." I probably took 80 pictures just for 9 students. Who knew so much work went into that picture on a profile card?! And all because of sponsors' partnership with these students and families could these proud moms and dads bring their little 3 year old babies and register them for school. What a beautiful thing!
Then from out of nowhere an English version with a country twang of "Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb" plays out of a phone, and feelings of home rush in, and we dance.
I write supplies on my hand so that we don't forget our bag of supplies and I'm reminded.
He supplies all our needs.
Sign in the Leveque school office.
There was a father there that was deaf trying to discipline and control his special needs son. The look of love in his eyes for his son was something I'll never forget. He was so tender and patient. When it was their turn for his son to get his picture taken, the son couldn't break his gaze with his dad so the dad went to hide behind the wall so I could get a picture with his son looking at the camera. Look at the love he has for his father. Couldn't break that stare.
There were tears.
And countless efforts from moms.
I mean look at her!
I enjoyed snapping pictures of these precious, precious ones!
He blessed moments. When everything around is chaos, He blesses the moments.
In the craziest of days that doesn't even seem possible, He supplied all our needs.
Let me ne'er forget.
