Broken

My heart is broken. It's not fair that an 8 month old has to die just because she was born in Uganda. My wonderful house-helper's niece has been sick. She's been in the Government run hospital for the past few weeks. She had surgery, but the surgeon messed up a very simple procedure, and now the little girl is dead.

My heart is heavy. A 3 year old who comes from the streets, she can not walk, talk, and is smaller then my 2 year old, and is sick with TB. She is to live in a “rehabilitation” home. It’s worse then a prison. http://sixtyfeet.org

My heart questions. Why should someone who has given so much of their life be told that the cancer is back, again? They have 3 young kids with another on the way. I cry out for answers.

It’s hailing right now. Yes, hailing in 70 degree Uganda. It was a beautiful day, and then within 5 minutes the sky turns black, and hail falls from the sky. It’s a violent storm. I watch as the trees outside bend in the strong wind. I watch our stalks of corn break in two. There is water seeping into the house through the windows and under doors.

It reminds me that this is not how it’s supposed to be. Even the earth knows this. We live in a broken world. And I need to remember that soon (hopefully soon) Jesus will come back and He will restore everything that is wrong. Oh Jesus, please come soon!

"Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory

he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for

that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.

Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with

eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will

join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.

For we know that all creation has been groaning as in

the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we

believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit

within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our

bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait

with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full

rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies

he has promised us. We were given this hope when

we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need

to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we

don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)"

Romans 8:18-25 (NLT)