Judging life...and people.

Do you know what the pods are?

Another week winding down.  Moments gone never to be lived again.

Overall this week went well. We celebrated Cory's birthday with thankfulness. We completed some school assignments so that all subjects are 'caught up' with the work schedule. The school days continue to be filled with review of known information and introduction of new.

Cory's plans for a trip to Port to renew our paperwork and visit LaGonave the end of the month appear to be coming together. He will make a cargo run on Oct. 20th to the Cap Haitian airport to pick up some plants for Starfysh. Then early on the 24th he will head to Port-au-Prince. Gener will go with him.

Eli and Anna's writing assignments for the last couple weeks consisted of writing a paragraph on 20 or so topics about Haiti and our lives here. I'm shaping these into letters from 'Flat Freddie' or Stanley for a couple of children's programs in the USA. Now Cory needs to proof read the letters and then we will add a few pictures and send the project off to Michigan and Delaware.

For school I'm reading aloud Bruchko by Bruce Olson. Many interesting discussions have spun off this book in our house. How badly the missionaries treated this young man. How hard it would be to eat squirmy grubs the size of a hot dog. Right now we just read how depressed and board he got when he first lived with the Motilone Indians. He had read his Bible so many times that even that became boring. He wished that the day only lasted 3 hours and that he could sleep the rest.

In thinking about this time of his life I find my self asking "Why, Lord." Why did Bruce need to go through days, weeks and months of depression? Asking why he was there? What good was he doing?

In my life, reading and ponderings I'm focusing on getting away from judging. Judging people, situations, events really does not accomplish much in my life because I do not have all the facts. We see such a small sliver of time or of a situation. We cannot see things from someone else's perspective to know why they act the way they act. I'm becoming more aware of how often my speech, attitudes and actions are judgmental.

 Even in writing this blog- "the week went well"  Did it really? In my limited perspective it did but what did God think about this week and what we accomplished? Did we do what He wanted us to do? Were our attitudes right or wrong? What did we do that will last forever?

 Photos of kids that picked cacao pods for Pastor Emmanuel in the church yard after the bamboo plant distribution.