Change

Change is a funny word.  Both desired and feared, avoided and sought out.  All depends on your point of view and desires I suppose.  Part of our leadership in Honduras thinks we are changing and progressing too slowly...for others it feels like being drug along behind a truck at speed.  

Above is a change in the Milk Project in Tegucigalpa, re-creating one of the classrooms to better handle the youngest of the students and separate the ages out a bit.  The paint we had purchased in 2024 for groups to use painting murals...but none did, so they will have plenty to get started on new murals such as this one, as well as re-painting some on the property wall that faces the road that haven't aged well over the last four years.  ​

The optometry group that was here last week saw quite a few people that even though they were far away, we referred to the clinic if they could get there for the difficult prescriptions they had.  Giving them something to get them by, but often times 1/2 or a 1/3 of what they needed.  When talking high prescriptions...that is a lot missing.  

Seen above is one of those patients that came quite quickly!  Being a -19.00 or so, one can understand why.  For those who don't know those kind of numbers, it is kind of like 10 times stronger, (in an inverse way), than a pair on the shelf to read with at the pharmacy.  

We are working on a plan how to handle the farms this year with all the trees we have planted...how will those harvests be distributed?  What about the timing?  What about the different quantities?  It will be a bumpy ride for sure, but getting started talking about it helps.  

This week though, a test planting of yuca came ready...and it was enough to feed all the kids in the Milk Project in Cantarranas.  

Another change of many with the new office building is the restructuring of the electrical meters and connections.  I include this because a lot of change is...hard.  Change isn't easy to process, isn't easy to make sure you are going the right way, isn't easy to handle when you find out you aren't going the right way, and in many other ways...it can just suck.  

Getting the permit for the new meter (to be placed there on the right) was shockingly done in one trip.  I thought that was at least one good/easy change.  Of course...they did say it will take 25-40 days to actually get it done.  And we will presume that will actually happen without a hitch, right?  

Yeah, we will need to paint there, and redo that mural...oh and the gate and door need painted.  Oh...change, change change.  What sometimes is hard to accept, is that change is constantly coming at us.   

We see a lot of change coming this year, both good and challenging.  I imagine it will all come too slow...and seemingly all at once as well. 

The good thing is that when changes suck, when they seem to be good, when we are so frustrated we just want to cry...we can remember James 1:17

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."

We have all received the good gifts...but when the shifting shadows are all we can see, we can always come back to the Rock which does not change or shift.  Amen y amen.