OLD EYES WITH RENEWED CLARITY

When Clara came to get food for her family on Saturday, I told her that a friend named Earnest from North Carolina was sending her a bible and she got excited. I explained that it was not the large print that she wanted, but we had a whole box of reading glasses that she and many other people could choose from, and My bible with small print came alive as she donned her new glasses. The bible arrived on Monday and we took it to Clara on Tuesday as we drove through the colonia checking on the guys installing the new water lines. We started taking the water barrels, that Brad Noyes gave us last week in San Antonio, over to the colonia and Omero has a list of those that need them. The trailer we took to S. A. is Roy Days from Illinois and sure comes in handy, I'm going to hate taking it back to him, so I'm trusting God for the $7000.00 Roy said he would sell it to me for.The goal is to get every family at least two barrels, so they can store enough water for a few days. I might have to ask Brad for one more load of barrels to meet the need.The pressure from the well, all the way to the end where we have lines, is still good enough for now until we get the next tower and 10,000 gallon tank built. We are grateful to the men digging the trench by hand and it's good to see them eager to help which frees up some extra money to extend the water lines even further. We give their families lots of beans and rice for their labor. Today we stayed home and cleaned the warehouse and sorted clothes which was good because two Pastors from Mexico stopped by to get beans and tomorrow we trade another ministry two pallets of beans for two pallets of hominy that's used to make pasole', a Mexican soup. Kristin and Kelly,our two girls, drove from Chgo to Denver while Kris had some time off from work and a break from going to the nursing home everyday to visit Grandma. I was going to fly up and visit them and see the changing Aspen trees in Colorado, but we spent so much time searching for low airfare it just didn't work out. So I'm booking my one way flight to Chicago for Christmas this week.