July 27

Today we went to Rio 3 with Jim and Betty. we did alot of clean up in the back building, so we can start taking it down to expand the clinic! The steps we poured look great and the floor in the farthest room is finished. We walked around alot today in the neighborhood. We brought a bed to a family across the river. As we went inside the home, my heart dropped. no walls, partial roof, 6 kids, no shoes 1 bed, dirt floor. Someone always lurking to steal things, so they have to stay to watch the stuff. I was devastated at what I saw. Never have I ever been invited into a home at one of these places, and I am glad to have the opportunity to see it today. As much shock as I was in I could feel Christ presence in the place. The hospitality as the lady rushed to clear of a chair and put a towel over it so I wouldn't get dirty. Her passion for the ministry and Love for her kids and the people around her. The thankfulness for a twin bed for her kids to sleep on. I have a full size bed at home, and I complain when it is to lumpy or , ha, not big enough. I should be lucky to have a bed, let alone a roof that covers my head and a floor to support me. I spend most of my life on the "necessities" and not enough on what God truly wants for us. I don't always need my cell phone, or my nice comfy pillow, or the nice cool AC. Shelter being our theme, is not a physical thing, but a spiritual thing. The shelter that God gives us just to follow him. His Love and passion to bring us into eternity with him, and the fact that he got up there and died for us. he was tortured, beaten, abused, crused and killed....for us. So that we can have life with him, and live in the shelter of his Holy name. Today we gave them a bed,..I felt like I would rather stay and build a roof over there heads. but to see there hearts full of Christ and to know he is working in there home, was more than any material thing they could ever want.

This evening a Jay Tyler Courtney and I drove out to the big bat cave. each evening over a billion bats fly out of an old mining cave. I have heard it is soo cool. well we got there and waited...and waited..and they never flew out. I think we may have got there to late. haha. But as we waited it got darker, and we realized how clear the sky was, and how dark it was. we laid out and just gazed at the stars for a couple hours. It is soo fantastic what God has created and the opportunity he gave us to see it tonight. We saw a shooting star, and we think about 20 satalites, or UFOs. May be aliens not sure...haha. It was great to relax in the peace of the night and pray, thanking God for all he has done. As this summer is quickly coming to an end, I am finding that I am trusting in Gods plan more and more each day. I have to and realizing that things happen in his time is critcal. It is tough, but knowing that life is so much better with him is amazing!

Adam

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"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn. "Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the arm. Then you will look and be radiant, your heart will throb and swell with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come.

No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end. Then will all your people be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor. The least of you will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will do this swiftly."

Isaiah 60:1-5, 18-22