Summer 2015 Slum Village
Man, am I learning a lesson on CONTENTMENT. " Be CONTENT in what you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you.". - Hebrews 13: 5. Wow God is always with us. That, my friend, is good news. No matter what you are going through. I was at the slum village paying Titah, a new mom. She makes bracelets and earns 15 UDS a month for money for food. I get to her family hut with her baby asleep in a hammock under the stick hut above the dirt. Her other 4 children are smiling despite dirty clothes and no shoes. Their outdoor tiny fire has a pot on it cooking water with what they can afford to put in for soup. I am invited to sit under the hut in a hammock as Tita was in the middle of a "shower'. Her "shower" consists of being outside in the village where all can see and dumping a bucket of water over her head with a sarong on. After doing this several times she pins up her hair an...