(Bill) Way too much of a good thing

Folks have been emailing us about the news here that Malawi and Mozambique have been inundated with rain and flooding, killing scores of people and displacing upwards of 70,000.  We are fine.  Other than a leaky roof and soggy chickens, we are thankful for all that we have:  a car to get around in the crazy weather, plenty of dry clothes to change into, Gortex raingear, walls in our home that don’t disintegrate, etc. 

As usual, with natural disasters, the poor are the hardest hit.  The houses that are crumbling are poorly built with bricks that haven’t been fired.  They literally melt with so much rain.  Additionally, the poorest of the poor often build their houses in the most vulnerable areas where flooding might strike.  There is so much illegal cutting of trees for shelter and fuel that these rains have an increased magnitude of devastation from all the erosion.  Please pray with us for relief from the rains.

Ironically, we are in day three of no water in our house (throw in a few power outages as well).  We’ve been through this before, but it gets old.  The boys are surprisingly resilient and don’t even flinch when the lights go out.   But in light of the misery all around us, we still can’t help but feel grateful.