Beautiful Feet: July 30, 2015

Too sick to go. We had planned to go to the canopies to zipline early this morning, but Clifton was really under the weather. He just did not feel like making the effort to get out, especially something that took so much effort. So, we had been wanted Edgardo to go with us to a study with Natividad. We have been studying for several months and we think she understands us, but she has not made a decision. We wanted Edgardo to go and make sure we were communicating. She said she understood everything, but she just wasn’t quite ready. Edgardo gave a good illustration. He started with the first 5 verses of John. He asked Natividad if the house she lived in was hers. She said yes. Then he asked, “What if you came home and someone else had taken your keys and you couldn’t get in, how would you feel? Even if you knocked, no one would let you come in to your own home.” He said that Jesus owned us. He wants for us to let him in. He wants to dwell in what is already his. But since we occupy ‘our house,’ we won’t let him in. We’ve locked him out. It was a great illustration. He went on to share a couple of further illustrations, but that was a good one. I had planned to have Sister Concepion over for cooking, and we were back at our car. I understood she lived close by, so I wanted to ask if she just wanted to ride back with us. At that moment she walked up and she said she would just come at 1. Edgardo rode on back for lunch and just as he was leaving, she arrived. She said she wanted to learn a couple of American recipes. The difficulty is finding things that she has equipment to cook with. She has a plancha, which is a like a big grill and two stove top gas eyes. So we cooked marinated salad, Italian chicken, stove top potatoes and onions and baked mango bread. She can’t cook the mango bread, but she wanted to include a bread. When we finished we had a small plate for a taste test. Dwaine had stayed upstairs for the afternoon mostly putting his finishing touches on his lesson for the teen boy seminar Saturday. It was approaching 4, so we wanted to take her home because it was raining. I divided the food into two parts. One I wanted to send to Nester’s family. Nester is a boy of 11 or 12 and he just had a three part, serious operation. The other half I wanted to send with Sister Concepion. She was really surprised. It was a nice surprise. A little after 5 we headed to the Bible study and took the food. Nester was looking good. I know the week had been really hard for him, but he always has a smile on his face. There was a good turnout for the study. About half way through, Linda asked me very quietly to move to the only empty chair from the sofa because their might be a leak to develop where I was sitting. After I moved across the room, I second guessed myself and wondered if I understood her correctly and if everyone was wondering why I moved across the room suddenly. So afterwards, I asked if that was what she said and it was. I was relieved that I wasn’t just playing musical chair in the middle of the studyJ. Anyway, Clifton didn’t go to the study either because he felt so bad. We are working on some different meds and hope one kicks in quickly for his last week.