I've got this ongoing battle with this stupid mouse in my room. Why won't it just leave me alone, I don't have any food in my room! My room was torn apart last night as I was trying to shoo it away; I'm thinking its about time this battle come to an end, he's disrupting my sleep and making me crazy. I wonder if they have mouse traps in Uganda, or if it would just get covered by lizards and I'd never catch that stupid mouse.
The kids had off from school today to allow their poor teachers to recover from the long day yesterday and so we didn't go out for ministry this morning, we decided to just keep it to serving in the afternoon. Its harder to go hungry all day when you are around the possibilities of food, like when your friend is eatting pineapple, or the kids are eating posho, beans and avocadoes.
I prepared our street ministry lesson activity this morning, after having decided to discuss manners and proper behavior. I gave them several key words to use: please, thank you, etc. And then made a short story including all the key words and assigned them the key words to stand up at, it helps get some energy out and keep them focused on listening. Its a bit difficult teaching to the street kids in that I can only say one or two English sentences before somebody will translate for me into Luganda. Then I taught them about proper behavior like, don't litter, keep time, share with others, wait your turn, etc. and had them do some charades, that was cute. I'm amazed at what they can retain, and for some reason what they desire to keep. I was hoping to leave all the work I did to prepare for the proper behavior lesson behind, it was just paper, albeit, with bright and colorful words written on it, but some of the kids still wanted it and dummy me, left it behind pinned to the board of chalk, so there was nothing to leave behind.
As we headed over to play a game in the abandoned lot neighboring the church they meet at, a kid ran up and asked to escort me to the field and told me I was a good teacher, melt your heart. I am broken every time I leave the street ministry, seeing how sweet some of these boys can be, how precious they are and then how broken they are, considering how many horrible things they see everyday, how hungry they are for food and love and attention. At least tonight API was able to take a kid off the street and welcome them into one of their boys' homes!
Cassady led us in devotions on forgiveness tonight, how great God's forgiveness is towards us, how it should be an example of our forgiveness of others, and how easy it can be to ask for forgiveness and worry no more. Jo gave us a great illustration of how God looks at our transgressions, one that I hope to use when I teach the street kids about forgiveness: we look at eachother's sins like a high rise in a city, comparing the number of stories we have to the number of sins we have, or how great each sin is, but when God views our sin, he sees us from the top, in plan view, and therefore can't see the comparison of someone else's sin to our own, its only about seeking forgiveness and correcting ourselves that God cares about. Good devo! 11.5.12
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