I’ve found myself a bit hectic recently; my “routine” is all but routine. Currently, it’s been a struggle to know how to prioritize: station maintenance vs. working with my team vs. making new tools vs. training new skills vs. reorganizing and future planning. At the end of the day, the workshop is a mess, the to-do list has grown instead of shrunk, and we’ve repaired thing #1 just to find out that thing #2 and #3 are broken.
Proverbs 14:4 Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean,
but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
If I’m interpreting this verse properly, God acknowledges that productivity comes with messiness – he provides grace for the “poop” in our proverbial “ox pen”. I was thinking that this would be the perfect verse to hang in the workshop.
Dale Johnson (long term missionary here) has a Honda 250cc motorcycle here. It’s a perfect “bush bike”. It sounds small to most Americans, but it’s twice the size of most bikes here (like mine – a 125cc Sanili). It had been broken (a broken rocker arm) ever since I’ve been here, but just this past week we got it up and running again. I plan to outfit it with a hitch so that it can pull our well drilling equipment. The little Sanili has some struggles when I tow our equipment with it (see picture below).
I was just out with Timothee – the supervisor for the “Survival Garden” projects. I rode with him on his moto to a number of gardens this morning. Those that we started last year are looking great. We’ve been getting great rains recently (thank the Lord) so I think that’s made it “easy”. The real “test” will begin when the rains stop. The practice of growing fruits and vegetables during the dry season is new to many of the families. Perhaps the good produce now will encourage those tending their relatively young gardens to continue caring for them throughout the year.
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