Saturday afternoon, we are back
at the compound after a lovely time with our teens at the conference. Rekik and I have thirty minutes to prepare
for our Transformation Love meeting with all of our beneficiary women. We called this meeting to inform them about
the activities the team is doing with them.
I say a quick prayer because it is very cloudy and it looks like it is
going to pour down rain any minute. We
are meeting outside for this meeting because we don’t have a room that will
hold everyone. Please God, don’t let it
rain until we are done with our meeting.
As I am greeting our
women one by one, I hear a knock at our gate.
I look up and it is Eman! Praise
God she is here! Thank you, God. We both run up to each other and hug and kiss
Ethiopian style. She says to me in
English, I love you. Those words melted
my heart! I whispered back in her ear, I
love you too. Then she walks over to a
chair and sits down. My heart is so full
of joy to see her again.
We start the meeting and tell the
women about the schedule for the next nine days. They are all so excited to have a team coming
to spend all this time with them. It has
been ten months since the last team was here with them. This is really a special treat for them! We serve them soda and just enjoy fellowship
with each other. Just catching up on
what has happened the past three months in our lives. Ethiopians really know how to fellowship,
that is for sure. I love this quality
about them.
After everyone leaves, Eman comes
into our office. She sits in a chair in
front of Rekik’s desk. She starts
telling Rekik that she is very sick. The
medicine for this cancer is making her very nauseous. She is crying and says she is sick right now,
but she really wanted to come, so she forced herself to come here. Now Dawit has just arrived from the teen conference,
totally exhausted. I looked at him and
asked him if he would pray over her. He
looked at me and said yes. I turned to
Eman and asked her if Dawit could pray for healing over her and she
agreed. Dawit got up and told me to come
with him. I told Dawit I have never done
this before. He just took Eman by the
hand and walked to my bedroom with her and I followed. He asked me to close the door.
Dawit places one hand on her
forehead and his other hand on the back of her neck. He looks up to God, closes his eyes and
starts praying for her. I stood behind
her with one hand on her shoulder and my other hand lifted up to God and
started praying the way I knew how. Eman
is wobbly and receptive to the prayer.
After Dawit was done praying for her, she started crying and telling him
all she wants is to be healed so she can see her baby grow up and become a
man. Dawit tells her all about Jesus and
how much he loves her. That Jesus is the
only one that can answer her prays, help her and heal her. She is resting her head on Dawit’s shoulder
crying, he has his arm around her shoulder, as he is talking to her with so
much love and truth. He is so full of
compassion and a Christ-like love. She
asks Dawit if he is telling her to believe.
Dawit tells her no, I am telling you to cry out to God and ask Him to
show her the truth. She is silent and
then replies with an “ish” which means “okay.”
Eman thanks us for praying for
her. I give her some money so she can
buy some protein to eat before she takes her medicine. This will keep her from getting sick from the
medication she is taking. We go back
into the office and I told her we would take her home. She was so happy to hear this because she
lives so far away. Sammy, Dawit, Eman
and I get into the car and we start to drive her home. She reaches over and holds my hand and
smiles.
We arrive at Eman’s
compound and we hug good-bye and she tells us to wait. She runs into the compound and quickly
returns with her baby in her arms, full of smiles. She opens my car door and places Amar (her
baby) in my lap. He is such a handsome
little guy. I hug him and kiss him. Dawit takes our picture together. Then I hug him and hand him back to his mom
and say goodbye.
We slowly drive away. Wow!
What an amazing day this has been.
Thank you God for allowing me to experience you in a very close and
intimate way today, you have truly blessed me today. Thank you for sharing your love. I am so blessed by you. I pray you bless this team that is coming
tomorrow with you love too.