LOOK TO ME AND SAY, "OH WELL"

After a long, wet, bumpy, thrilling ride through Port-au-Prince and a rest stop to divide supplies and to wait out the downpour at the TNM house, we made our way to Cabaret for the week. Unsure of what was ahead of us (other than the hot weather) we wound our way through unruly traffic, around broken down cars and past numerous tent cities.

Let me just say that there is no ride, not at Six Flags, Frontier City, Disney World, Disney Land or any place in the world, that can compete with a truck ride through PAP. The roads are horrendous (and that's putting it nicely), the traffic flow makes Houston, D.C, Tulsa traffic at rush hour look like a piece of cake. Horns are a must whether you're saying hi, wanting to pass, mad at the driver in front of you or you're just happy and you want to let everyone else know!


The beautiful mountains, colorful flowers and various tropical/forrest trees seem to mask the fact that there are slums, shanty towns,  tent cities, crushed houses, garbage piles and rubble piles all around. Everywhere you look and every corner you turn.

A little over 2 1/2 hours later we arrived at the orphanage and set up our "home away from home"...a tent. I'm a country girl and I don't mind getting down and dirty and I sure don't mind sleeping in a tent or on the ground... but in 100 degree weather and for a week, I was singing another tune and it wasn't pretty. After setting up our tent and delaying the inevitable... long/hot/humid night, I found myself complaining and thinking how "unfair" this was. Unfair that I had to sleep outside, in the hot weather, with no pillow and on a cot.

That's when He spoke to me. "Try to see things more and more from my perspective. When little things don't go as you had hoped, look to me lightheartedly and say "OH WELL"  "All your troubles are light and momentary compared with the eternal glory being achieved."


Nothing like a nice word of encouragement and dose of reality! Point taken!


Who did I think I was to complain and think "woe is me" and think how "unfair" it was to sleep in a tent for 5 whole days. What about 5 weeks, 5 months, 5 years?


When things aren't going as we planned (you didn't get the house you were wanting, you didn't land your dream job or your car breaks down) let's be reminded that we need to look to Him and say "Oh well". All your troubles are light and momentary... even sleeping in a tent.




2 Corinthians 4:17-18
For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Faith In Action
::Jessica