Passed the mid-week mark!

I tend to feel after French class on Wednesday afternoons that the midpoint of the week now belongs in the history category, behind me.

Each day this week the sun managed to warm the temperatures a bit more than the previous day and the saturated soil looses a bit more moisture. Cory's guys continue to reduce the number of weeds in the garden and today spent time planted about 30 breadfruit trees around campus who's main propose in life will be as propagation stock, providing cuttings. Five of them planted near clinic do have enough space to grow large, mature and bare fruit.

Allow me to project on the trees a minute, a few human thoughts and feelings. I wonder if those trees destine to spend their lives being cut back will be as fulfilled in their 'tree role' as those allowed to produce fruit. In reality those who bare fruit, that will be eaten, will end up with less offspring than the ones used for cuttings.

Am I fulfilled today teaching my kids and studying French as I would of been working on the hospital onLaGonave with the visiting team? Am I learning to be content where I am placed, doing what I have to do in this stage of my life? No more looking back or looking forward, I need to live in today!

Interesting how the issues one is dealing with in life can end up layered onto ordinary life events or objects. I'll admit that returning to post-team life with no events to count-to depressed me a bit. In addition I spent most of yesterday morning helping Anna with grammar! Not a subject that either of us really enjoy hence she let it slip which resulted in a marathon 'catch up' session.

But thankfully the Lord used a few clinic patients, a video of a pastor reflecting that the best decision he ever made was not to cheat his family for the ministry, and a request to put together some helpful medical information for the Haiti team to adjust my perspective again.

 I also started to work for a bit each day on either my French studies or translating into Creole parts of the next book.

I know that I'm where I should be, doing what I need to be doing. And the small cloud of doubt from last week blew away with the help of prayers, the attitude adjustment and some chocolate.
Have a great day.