I am busy here at home working with all my leftover wood. I am using old wood that is with me already for 12 years or more. On the outside it looks bad, full of mud and weathered really badly, but when you put it through a saw and sand it down, the true colors come alive. When Anton was here last time, he helped to collect some of the wood that was just lying here in the rain and I started to dry them. Now we can make beautiful little cars from the nice wood and bless children wherever we go or wherever some of my friends go. I make around 100 cars at a time and then call on some friends to give it out, for free off course. The children are sooooo happy to finally get a toy.
Working with wood, that is only use to cook rice in
Cambodia, is very strange to the locals. Why would you go through all those
trouble to clean the wood and make something like a car from it?? Go and buy
new wood or better, just go and buy a Chinese plastic toy. Well, that cost
money where my wood is for free. Is that not how God works? He uses us that are
weathered really badly, and make us new again. Unfortunately, we cannot do much
about our outside appearances, like we do with wood, but God is working on the
inside. (lots of people try) He cuts and shave and sometimes need to hammer us
down as we can be so stubborn to listen. In the end you can look rough as guts
but your inside is washed clean by the blood of Jesus. I met some people, like
my dad use to say, that is a Rough Sketch and not an oil painting, but the most
beautiful person ever. These days we are so quick to judge people and condemn
them for nothing.
Last night in church we had to pray for the turmoil in
the world. You do not need a university degree to know that the world is in
turmoil. We need to earnestly pray for each other daily as the devil is walking
around amongst us these days.
We are waiting for Anton to come this Wednesday as we
need to feel like a family again. Already started to plan on some stuff we need
to do. Pray for him as he is very busy to finish all his work in these 2 days. Please
pray that he will get his passport, tomorrow. Cutting it a bit close.
I leave you with this verse for the week:
Just hold on to what you have until I
come. Rev 2:25
Love to you all
Rossouw-clan
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