God's Love - Really

Hello everyone! ....haha, long time no see.... well! life is good here still, having a good week of work, and a fun time with my friend kristy's family, who were visitng for spring break. their son eric is now sponsoring a child, which is always such a huge blessing to us here at the school! we've also gotten a few new sponsors for our preschool class, and it is so sweet to see the kids learn to understand that there is someone in another country who cares for them, enough to send money for them to go to school. what a great way to show Jesus' love here!! it was also really cool to see cheifry (little boy) actually meet his sponsor, eric, that's always an extra special meeting to be a part of.

now, on the other end, there's been a few roadblocks in the past few days - my camera was stolen out of the office, along with my grocery money, and two other cameras were stolen out of the main office. definitely a setback to all of us, since a big part of my job is having pictures of kids. a small praise, though, was that i had just copied all the pictures onto my computer before it was taken. (thank you God!) i won't lie, it was really disappointing to feel that some kid in this school does not appreciate the work we do here enough to not take our things......but God has been teaching me something really neat about love through this. the very night my things got stolen, our women's bible study read about Jesus' holy and perfect love - how no matter how many people reject, don't understand, spit upon, or just ignore our Father's love, He never stops giving that love to us. and so, what would be keeping me from loving these kids? because one of them took a material possession from me? i should not be offended by something like that, but like Jesus, learn to understand that none of us are perfect, and accept it with full and complete forgiveness. this work here, it's not about me, what i'm giving, or any of us and whether or not we're offended - it's about showing God's love to the unloved, no matter what. so thank God for that lesson, i hope i can continue to think more in that vein of Godliness! (personally i still feel pretty imperfect...) now, we are trying to find out who did it, because it wouldn't be right to just let someone get away with that, but the reality of that is almost laughably small. : ) so, from here on out, until further notice, i may have to put some older pictures up on here......sorry i won't have any new ones! thank you all for your continued prayers and support, i thank God every time i receive a monthly reminder of those who have commited to supporting me : ) God bless, and keep drawing on His well of Perfect Love!
~allison