Azucena, the sad little girl at Rosa's. So I get to tell Amy I know where she is AND that she is OK!
Look at some of the IFs in this: if we didn't have any gifts to give to Rosa, we probably wouldn't have been at her house on the 31st...gives giving a whole new meaning!!! If we had gone to Rosa's any earlier than the 31st to give the gifts, which was what I wanted to do but didn't have the energy for, then we wouldn't have met Azucena. If the funeral procession didn't go past our casa, or if the other girls had come to class, which would have meant we would have walked them home another way, we would have missed meeting Amy on the street. If I wasn't so nosy, remember the gloves?, then I wouldn't have seen the missing poster. If Amy and I weren't out just doing what we heard God ask us to do, simple stuff, walking girls home and hanging posters, then we wouldn't have been given the privilege of connecting lost and found!GIVES BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME A NEW LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE!
All this adds up to what our friend Dick Rutgers calls a God-incidence vs. coincidence, and we agree with him!
Now I know you remember as you read this that we are indeed in a 3rd world country, where the police and legal machines just don't function as they do in the US. There are no Amber alerts here. And thankfully, the police DID bring Azucena to Rosas. These police operate out of Chimaltenango, which is even farther away from Antigua than all the other places aforementioned...oh how I wish I could draw a map of all this for you :) And when her parents tried to file a missing report, being New Year's Eve, I guess, the police dated it 12/2010. Mom and dad even tried to file a report in Antigua, but the offices were moving, so they were told to come back on Monday. Azucena is 10 years old! Any guesses on how long it would have taken the wheels of justice to figure this one out?
So back to Amy and the gloves, which she got to take off as she wouldn't need to glue any more posters to poles, etc. She called the parents immediately, OK, as soon as she stopped crying, and arranged to meet them in Antigua. Then she drove them to Rosas for a reunion. She will also help them work thru the legal stuff(remember the police brought her to Rosas) so Azucena can go home hopefully tomorrow. It may never be known exactly how she got oh so far away from home, but they were able to determine that she wasn't abused in any way on her dangerous journey. And out of this, the special needs school is going to be working on getting ID bracelets for many of their students.
I like this job! Buenas noches y feliz dia manana!
Look at some of the IFs in this: if we didn't have any gifts to give to Rosa, we probably wouldn't have been at her house on the 31st...gives giving a whole new meaning!!! If we had gone to Rosa's any earlier than the 31st to give the gifts, which was what I wanted to do but didn't have the energy for, then we wouldn't have met Azucena. If the funeral procession didn't go past our casa, or if the other girls had come to class, which would have meant we would have walked them home another way, we would have missed meeting Amy on the street. If I wasn't so nosy, remember the gloves?, then I wouldn't have seen the missing poster. If Amy and I weren't out just doing what we heard God ask us to do, simple stuff, walking girls home and hanging posters, then we wouldn't have been given the privilege of connecting lost and found!GIVES BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME A NEW LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE!
All this adds up to what our friend Dick Rutgers calls a God-incidence vs. coincidence, and we agree with him!
Now I know you remember as you read this that we are indeed in a 3rd world country, where the police and legal machines just don't function as they do in the US. There are no Amber alerts here. And thankfully, the police DID bring Azucena to Rosas. These police operate out of Chimaltenango, which is even farther away from Antigua than all the other places aforementioned...oh how I wish I could draw a map of all this for you :) And when her parents tried to file a missing report, being New Year's Eve, I guess, the police dated it 12/2010. Mom and dad even tried to file a report in Antigua, but the offices were moving, so they were told to come back on Monday. Azucena is 10 years old! Any guesses on how long it would have taken the wheels of justice to figure this one out?
So back to Amy and the gloves, which she got to take off as she wouldn't need to glue any more posters to poles, etc. She called the parents immediately, OK, as soon as she stopped crying, and arranged to meet them in Antigua. Then she drove them to Rosas for a reunion. She will also help them work thru the legal stuff(remember the police brought her to Rosas) so Azucena can go home hopefully tomorrow. It may never be known exactly how she got oh so far away from home, but they were able to determine that she wasn't abused in any way on her dangerous journey. And out of this, the special needs school is going to be working on getting ID bracelets for many of their students.
I like this job! Buenas noches y feliz dia manana!
pretty amazing. Praise God that she got home safely!
ReplyDeleteOMG He is truly amazing and wonderful!!! What a wonderful story and may it be prophetic for you to start out a new decade in Guatemala. I see the yellow and blue blanket my granddaughter made me proudly displayed...I so love you and your heart - can't wait to visit...
ReplyDeletexoxoxox...judy
That's our God... He is so amazing!!! ZLove the blog... great way to keep track of you both. We miss you so much and hope to get to Guatemala again someday soon. This time with a happier departure... Keep your light shining... you are a blessing to many.
ReplyDeletexoxoxoxo Love, The Sommerville family