Light House

"I am seeing more & more that we begin to learn what it is to walk by faith, when we learn to spread out all that is against us.  All our physical weakness--loss of mental power--spiritual inablility--all that is against us inwardly and outwardly, as sails to the wind & expect them to be vehicles for the power of Christ to rest upon us."  Whew! Spreading out all the things against me as a sail to the wind!  Perfect!  Thank you, Lilias Trotter!

The contract for our apartment in "Light House" in Asian City was duly signed at rainy noontide yesterday.  May it be, indeed, a light house!  Today it is getting a good cleaning.

I was helping going over an English test taken by one of Christian's students (and same-age friend)--and was amazed to find it featured the story of Thomas Barnardo!  I had known little of his amazing life before, so I read up on it.  Pronounced dead at two, he was saved by an undertaker, who also could be said to have saved the lives of many of the 60,000 children who later were to pass through Barnardo's doors.  Inspired by Hudson Taylor, Barnardo planned to join the  CIM, but while preparing, the plight of London's children alerted him to a call to meet vulnerable  children's needs.  Hmmmm...  Since the octuplets' birth, I had been thinking along lines of there being a need for some to open ministries to overwhelmed mothers and their children... a ministry in which I seem to see a wide scope of possibilities.  

We visited a young fellow with leukemia in a distant hospital and prayed with him.  While we ( including three sisters who also came) shared with him and his mom, another patient listened hungrily, but her husband appeared  showing fierce resistance to the Gospel.  The boy's mother came to church Sunday, and her face looked brighter.