Semana Diez

This week was another great week! We had a full, uninterrupted five day week. I can’t tell you the last time that happened here…Actually, I’m not sure it has happened since I’ve been here! Usually something comes up, visitors come, or tests need to be taken in the city. It was so wonderful to have a “normal” whole week of school this week. Though not everything around here was normal, this week sure felt right.

A team from Florida arrived last Saturday to help run an eye clinic here in Camichines as well as in Cocula (a nearby village). The team stayed in Cocula, which helped keep things seeming normal around here without a ton of extra traffic most days. The team screened many people in the two villages giving everyone who came sunglasses and providing prescription glasses to those who needed them. Many people from our church in the city (Guadalajara) came out to help translate for the team along with a few of the people already serving here.

Lately, I’ve begun thinking about what comes next. What the future holds. Where I’ll be after this chapter in my life. It’s not because I’m anxious to move on! I love life here in Camichines. I love working with the children here. I love working alongside this ministry. And I love getting to do what I love everyday: teach.

Every day that passes means I’m one day closer to leaving this place and these people I’ve come to love so much :( Along with that, I’m one day closer to uncertainty of my future. I don’t know where I’ll be four or five months from now. If I’ll have a teaching job in Michigan, or another state, or if I’ll be back here. The stress of the unknown is beginning to overwhelm me and daily, I have to remember that it’s all in God’s hands. That He has a plan for my life and that His plan is perfect. I may not know now where He wants me to be in four or five months, but I have to trust that He’ll reveal His plan for me in his perfect timing. Until then, I’ll do all I can: pray and wait.

“In the silence, in the waiting, still, we can know You are good.

All Your plans are for Your glory. Yes, we can know You are good!”

This is a verse from the song I mentioned in my last post, but the lyrics here have spoken truth to me that I need to be reminded of daily.

He has brought me here in His own perfect timing and I expect nothing less of the next chapter of my life. Instead of worrying, stressing, or becoming anxious about what the future holds I choose to hold on to this verse:

Philippians 4:6-7 “Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.”

I’ll choose to make the most of the time I know I have here! Make the most of my time left with these beautiful children of God!

Enjoy the pictures below from this week at school! (If you want to see more, check out my album on Facebook or follow this link if you don’t have Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4289683895063.1073741825.1675440019&type=1&l=f581a0d5f0)