Right now we are at Alabanza in South Africa for a four day prayer retreat. By the time we go back to Swazi on Monday it will be the half way mark of our trip! I couldn't believe it when someone brought it to my attention.

So I want to continue on the story about the baby Moses that I blogged about last week. The team brought him to the hospital and was admitted on Monday. Two girls from my team stayed with him all night and he died on Tuesday morning around 5am. Most people took it really hard. It's so difficult to even begin to try and understand why God would allow this to happen. Why would He allow the World Race team to save this baby after he starved for it's first month of life only to go and die after they didn't even have him for two weeks? If He is a God that makes the blind see, the lame walk, surely He is capable of saving this baby. Of course He is capable, He can do anything He wants! So why wouldn't He just do a miracle and allow this baby to survive? The truth is that there are many things in this world that we're just not meant to know. Maybe He knew that Moses was HIV positive and would have TB and would live a life of only suffering, and in the long run was saving him. We could guess or make up reasons as to why we believe the Lord would allow him to die, but that won't change the fact that Moses did die. He's gone and we'll all have to accept it. It sucks, and we all know it. The world is a terrible place and this is only one story that proves it. Terrible and evil things happen all the time all over the world. But the Lord requires us to praise Him no matter what. He is a good God that deserves our worship no matter the circumstance - in good and bad times. Everything is in His timing and is beyond our understanding. His plan is perfect and He knows what we want even more than we know what we want. Trust Him that even when we can't see why things go the way they do that He knows what He's doing. And He's doing it for His glory.

SiSwati for this week:

*All vowels are the same as in Spanish

What is your name? - Ungibani ligama lakho? (Un gi (as in geese) bani lee gamma lacko)

I am ___________ - Ngingu ___________ (Neen gu)