Sometimes I feel like my senses are dulled to what’s going on around me. Not as sharp, not as reactive, not as impressed as when I first was immersed in this culture. And that bothers me. But a couple days ago, I felt something. I had to sit outside in silence for a while after I did an HIV test for one of our Tb patients. Positive…again. Number five of our Tb patients who we’ve discovered are also HIV positive. And that’s not counting spouses we’ve tested too. It’s overwhelming and makes you feel like your working to try and move a boulder a hundred times as tall as you that’s just going to topple back over you anyway. But this Tb patient I had just tested is 21... and 8 months pregnant. Her husband was the one who came to the clinic for the test after we heard he’d spent time in the Dominican and Anne-Marie had a hunch. I saw the two lines that said positive and just felt defeated. The past couple weeks we’ve seen so many positives and sometimes I wonder what Haiti’s going to look like in 20 years. How prolific will the disease be or will it just wipe out a generation? It’s easy to blame individuals but bigger societal and cultural problems are core. But when it attacking young women and their unborn babies, that’s when I can feel the rage start to boil inside me. I think I need to just listen to the song that’s playing in my ear right now:
“Everything’s broken…but it still can be redeemed.”
Maybe the Lord is trying to tell us something…
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Such a challenging word and challenging work there. We're glad to have your dad back in Washington, though I'll bet it was fun to have him there. We continue to keep you in prayer.
Ryna, Thanks for all the work you are doing there amongst God's children. Steven Curtis Chapman also has a song about being broken and our redemption that comes through Christ. Keep up the good work and give my best to Bruce & Deb.
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