Life has been crazy and beautiful and full. Full of laughter and love and tough decisions and joy and hard conversations and grace. I would never trade the moments and days spent here with these precious souls. The Lord has taught me more in this past year than I could have imagined and blessed me to no end.
Monte Cristi is a pretty small town and we mostly just walk everywhere we need to go. Walking to school in the morning has become one of my most treasured times to process and pray and honestly, just plead with the Lord. Pleading for Him to break through and change hearts and bring peace and redeem all the brokenness and restore all shattered hearts. Because He really is our only hope.
The Lord has taught my independent self an entirely new sense of dependence this year. Because when I wake up in the morning and when I go to sleep at night, my peace comes from knowing that He keeps His promises and and that He loves these dear brothers and sisters and friends and mothers and fathers and children of mine more than I could ever imagine. And so I trust and depend on Him. And I plead for redemption and restoration already knowing that He makes all things new. And He always will.
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And here are some photos from a couple weeks ago. Elizabeth (mine and Christine's other roommate when we lived at the orphanage) came to visit and stayed with us for a while. We absolutely LOVED having her and are sad that she had to leave. The family we went to visit back in January came to visit as well and it was an amazing few days. So here is a glimpse of their beautiful faces...
Christine and Joanni eating pizza.
A huge kite at the orphanage that one of the boys made.
Domingo flying the kite.
Domingo flying the kite.
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