Grace.

These past eight months have been perhaps the hardest yet most remarkable season for us in the Dominican.

We started the year with the departure of a dear staff member due to some unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances.  Just when we thought the waters were beginning to cool down, and life seemed to be getting back to "normal," we received a late night phone call that a friend and fellow ministry worker had been in a car accident that took her life.

As summer camp was approaching, we were down many a few staff already, others began to suffer physical ailments.  It looked as though a disaster loomed ahead of us, not to mention the disaster that we could still see in the rearview mirror.

While this has been a very difficult chapter of our life, looking back, there is one obvious common thread.  Grace.

"My grace is sufficient for you, my power made perfect in weakness."  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

2 Corinthians 12:9  

We are learning that His grace IS sufficient.  When I am weak, He is strong.