STOP LIGHT and prayer requests

Wow, I was going to add this last week, and totally forgot.  Cap Haitian now has ONE stop light.  A real working one.  I haven't seen it yet, but others have.  We did see that the road had real lane markings on it... and wondered about that, but since it was right in front of the police station, we thought they may be teaching their officers something?  BUT that is the corner where the new light is.  It's on the boulevard.  The main road along the waterfront.  And it has one road leading to it.  They say the light has a timer on it, so you know when it will change.  But I have to laugh.  The missionaries who have seen it, said they didn't realize it was there until they had gone through it.  There was a policeman on a motorcycle behind them and they thought he was going to stop them, but he didn't.  Guess he didn't know what to do with it.  

But this brought back to mind something that happened many, many years ago.  Kathy and Alice (the missionary gals across the street) and I used to go to Port about once a month to visit friends there.  We were downtown and all of a sudden I saw a stop light, and it turned red.  I stopped.  Horns blew, people yelled and cars went around us.  Two stoplights had been installed in Port and no one paid any attention to them.  We were almost hit because we obeyed that light.  And now, all these years later, here we are in Cap, with the same situation. 


I'm also asking for prayers in this letter.  We received news yesterday that my (Karen) brother has cancer that has spread throughout his body.  Please keep him (Bob) in prayer.  And also his wife, Bev.  This is a very difficult time for them.  We are so thankful we will get to see them soon.  We are praying God will touch him and heal him, but if that is not in God's will, then we pray God will take the pain away and ease his suffering.  Pray with us for God's Hand on Bob's body and his life.


And I'm also asking you to keep Vero in prayer.  She has so much on her plate right now, and she will be adding the care of Savanah to that.  She will need strength and a lot of wisdom to keep going.


For now we simply ask that you keep your eyes on Jesus and all He has done for you.  Praise God for His faithfulness and thank Him for His sacrifice for you.  I know that is something we all need to do daily.  No matter where we are on our walk, God is always right by our side, with His Hand on us.  All we have to do is reach out and take that Hand!  


Till next time, God bless!