Amazing Family, Week 1

There is a family on this team that has really blown me away. They all have such gentle spirits but they aren't at all weak or emotional or followers. Their gentleness seems equally matched with a strength in their relationships with each other. God has shown himself so clearly to me through them this week, through Dad's hoarse confessions of sin and selfishness as he poured his testimony out, through Mom's tears as she pieces together the horrors experienced by the boys and the miraculous healing that she is now playing a role in, and through Daughter's constant play and protection of the boys that endured with big sisterly ease long after the rest of the team and myself had sought quiet places to rest. At the pizza party I took a "family picture" of them with the two boys that they started sponsoring this week. A third boy jumped into the picture and didn't want to leave. I couldn't blame him; I would like to be a part of their family too! They live near me in Florida, and I really hope that I continue to see them after the summer. God is just so clear in them.