BLESSINGS THAT NEVER STOP FLOWING

As what we are having according to the previous entry, indeed we are so blessed that Gerson has made it into the medical school. It will be great if in the future we will be able to have an in house doctor who grew together with all of the orphans . It will be a very special thing to happen to our orphanage. This is a major and some sort grand gift from The Lord. Praise The Lord.

To add up the blessing for Gerson's matter, my retired boss Captain Leonard Mc Cully called me some days before I left for Timor. He was asking me about the orphanage's progresses. When I told him about Gerson's test for the medical school , he cut short my telling and told me that he will help me with Gerson's funding to enter the medical school. Praise The Lord. If you ever take the Singapore Airlines flight, you will be greeted by Captain McCully on the welcoming video. By then you will see the handsome gentlemen and now you will see him as well as a very kind and generous person for so many human being even though he never met them before. SIA being blessed for having so many great leaders and personnels in the company. To Captain Len McCully and bro Derek McCully , thank you for your support in this education matter.

There are so many more blessings that we are receiving from The Lord. One of them is the plentiful of water that is not only enough for us to cook, bath and sanitation but it is also enough to water the plants. By having enough water , our jack fruit tree is giving us so much fruit and indeed it is amazing as the fruit are not only hanging on its branches but they are also reaching the ground.

Jack fruit reaching the ground as well as hanging on its branches

There are other blessing that is really a big surprised to us during this trip. The road to the orphanage was made smooth and well paved right through the orphanage's gate. The before and after was just so amazing. From now on there will not be any more bumpy road on the way in and out of the orphanage, Praise The Lord. It was Aug 26 when the road work was being started and it went on only for two 3 days to pass the orphanage's gate. The contractor told me that this sector of road was not in the planned road work but he was feeling so strong about doing this section first before doing the rest. I do not know what but it is certainly God's favor to us at the orphanage. Praise The Lord.

Upon doing the actual road work at our road, my self and all of the bigger orphans were assisting in the form of cleaning, carrying the stones and pebbles, leveling the surfaces and whatever needs that we can help out. Peggy and the girls were preparing two types of drink ( young coconut with syrup on the rock/ ice cubes and ice coffee drink beside the free flow of drinking water. Peggy and the girls also managed to provide meals during the break times for the all of the road workers ( 25 of them).

drinks for the road workers

making our gate entrance nice and smooth

Blessings can be flowing in as well as flowing out ( or within). The orphanage is not only a place for the younger one but some time it provides a care and place for the senior citizen too. For example it can host some of our friend's relative or parent in the case the family members were unable to look after the older member. The orphanage will be more than happy to help and taking care the senior citizen too. It is great that we can provide some sort of comfortable place to host them. With this capability of helping them we are actually being blessed for learning what an old age is and what the meaning of having the comfort for having some one just for the purpose of having a casual and daily conversation. It is a need for each of us to have others to talk or share our ideas and to let out things in our mind. We are now able to tell the orphanage children more about how we must work together better and better and how we should help each other and how to keep a good network among them. Since most of the orphans are not having any known relative or siblings , we should deem more that all of the orphanage members are our own " sibling and family" that we have. After all a senior person is not demanding any thing and not much of the need that we must do for them except a family kind of talk, a chat in the old days and things that All of us need , that is being love and some care.

uncle Daniel , a regular senior person staying at the orphanage

miss Shierly chatting with uncle Daniel

Indeed , blessings others does not need to be a material gift(s) but your time can be a very valuable thing to share . If you have some spare time to give , please come and visit us one day . The sharing time will be able to be remembered by the children and who knows that you can be a trigger for the children to do things better or your example can be a catapult for the children to reach their goal. Each of the children might be needing a different kind of personal approaches to get into their inner will ( the deepest sense) to open up.

We are expecting some great supply of mango by 2nd week of December. Most of our mango trees are full with its flower. Even though the ear;lier flowers were fell to the ground because of the strong prevailing wind which blows in July, some how many trees are showing the flower rather later than the usual timing yearly. It must be the timing that God has arranged for us to have the mango trees having its flower preserved from falling because of the strong wind. Now we are able to say that we will be having enough of fruits ( mango) by 2nd week of December onwards for at least 6 weeks.

Arum Manis mango tree full with flower at our orphanage

small Arum Manis mango

" Mana Lagi " mango flower

Mana Lagi mango