It´s Thursday!

Today´s my favorite day of the week :)

On Gary´s (that´s Dolan) encouraging reminder to me (long, long time ago now) that Sabbath Day is one of the Ten Commandments, I felt compelled to choose a day. My work was round-the-clock at the hospital, and in any gaps that presented, with the Street Kids, Compassion and groups coming down, weekends (and especially Sundays) got all but erased from my mental programming, as I was often checking diets and serving as impromptu interpreter for discharges or teams during scheduled church services. I chose Thursday as my Sabbath Day. As I continue balancing out meetings, studies, communication (written and verbal), grocery store trips and cooking, apt. care, bill- and tax-paying, and personal health issues, and tour groups,,, each of which tasks is challenged and lengthened in the face of a complicating and often unfriendly system here, and use of primary foot/leg transportation, I continute to find it the most important day of my week. It´s the day we traditionally say "thank you" in the States on Thanksgiving Day,,,, it´s my reminder day, my thank-you day, my "wow, we´ve made it this far" day... my special time to sit down with the Lord and really praise Him from my heart-day. I continue attending church services on Sundays, and tithing, and I have friends and mentors with whom I pray and have done Bible study over the years here. But what brings it all home, is my Sabbath Day!

It´s really my favorite day of the week. And I can´t believe we´ve made it this far! Thank you for being a part of God´s mission for us here in Ecuador. :)

M.