This is a blog I wrote over a year ago about my time at Iris Ministries in Maputo, Mozambique. I know God has so much more to show me about His healing power and our role in it all. I love seeing how He is continuing these lessons for me.
written 1/27/07
“Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.”
~ Proverbs 25:25
I
get an email newsletter from a missionary couple who works at the
orphanage I visited in Mozambique this past November. It is great to
still be in the loop on what is happening there. God has been teaching
me about the mairaculous more and more and His desire to astound us
with the work of His hands. And while I am belieiving more and more in
mairacles that can happen in the blink of an eye (the lame walking, the
blind seeing, etc.), He has encouraged me most in those little
mairacles, the ones where he uses his people (he loves to use us!), the
ones that you watch develop over time. The pictures below are of
Mateus and Yuran, two sweet baby boys I encountered during my time in
Mozambique. Mateus was abandoned on the streets at just weeks old, and
brought to Iris by the police. Yuran was wasting away at an ill
equipped orphanage that the director of Iris Zimpeto visited, and she
couldn’t bear to leave him there. The first pics in the progression
are ones I got from the missionaries that they took upon the babies’
arrival to Zimpeto. The ones that follow show their progress. It is
astounding. It did not happen overnight. This transformation came
through hours of night-watches, of 3am feedings, of prayers of healing,
of trusting the Lord with these little lives. Now these children,
whose eyes were so clouded with pain and hurt, and fear beyond
description are smiling, laughing, walking, and, dare I say, CHUBBY!
That is a mairacle, my friends, no less than turning water into wine or
spitting on some mud for a blind man to see. He wants to work through
us, to use us. Are we hearing His call?
Yuran arrival
Yuran around 2 months later-taken while I was there!
Mateus arrival
Mateus with me in November
and Mateus NOW!!
“Why are you waiting for a mairacle when YOU are the mairacle that I sent??”
-written in my journal 6-15-06
