claudette

for some reason my computer and i are not getting along tonight. i can't get any pictures uploaded. so i will write more later, possibly do a post tomorrow. depending on our generator which has been having fits today. i just wanted to ask for prayers for claudette.

she is one of the housekeepers in the birthing center. she has had a new house built for her this summer, but hasn't moved into it yet because it still needs doors and windows. and this morning she told me that the house she is living in had a fire.

i just looked at her. this woman has been through so much in the last couple years, i could hardly believe it. a few of us went to the house that burned and saw her meager belongings all strewn about and smelled the smoke from the night before. there was a pile of ashes that had been some of her families clothes that were in a suitcase. there was a mattress that was completely ruined. there were a few pieces of clothing they were able to salvage so that her children could still go to school in their uniforms. that was one of her biggest concerns this morning, that her children weren't going to be able to go to school.