Discouragement

Gosh, I can be such a Pollyanna sometimes. Our water is back to only being on at night again. Would be nice to have it during the day when we are up.

And our potential new landlord not only didn’t have the house finished as he’d said (for the fourth time!) but he wanted us to give him more money and wait more. We talked it over with him and told him we couldn’t do that. He said he’d give us our money back and we could part friends, but he didn’t have it just now. Of course. So we are trying to be optimistic that he’ll give us the money back.

Then our truck got burgled and we lost a flashlight, Ralph’s new sunglasses and six of our favorite Christian and Gospel CDs. Bummer. Our landlord, Jacobo was appalled…said nothing like that had ever happened here before. Lucky us, we get to be first. Noticed today that his iron fence is all caved in, wonder what happened there, but he’s gone, so we’ll have to wait to see.

Discouragement is hard to deal with anywhere, but we seem to have more trouble dealing with it here and we can’t really put our finger on the “why” of it. Just try to stay focused on why we are here, keep praying about what God would have us do push forward day by day.

On the good news side, Tropical Depression Paul turned out to be a total non-event…just light rain, no flooding, no damaging winds. Praise the Lord.

And we’ve gotten to watch Candy’s new little daughter while she took Luis to the doctor for a couple of shots. What a blessing to sit and rock that little wonder, beautiful little child of God.

Thanks for your prayers.