July 26, 2019
There is so much going on and so much to write that it takes such a great effort just to review and summarize the week. It’s similar to what I was taught in the seminary regarding writing a homily. It's very easy to ramble on with a terrible homily for 30 minutes but very difficult and time consuming to prepare and preach clearly for only 10 minutes. I've done both for sure!
So, we were just going to post something on the “Victory Wall/Testimonials” section, but then we decided to add another positive thing that maybe can be a teaching for us. A few days back one of the little kids that was adopted a while back (by another person in the ministry) was celebrating their birthday. This child was on their own with their guardian angel in a church and God brought Rachel’s attention to this child. Rachel could see that this child was playing with a boy around 2 years old or so and they were running around looking at the candles and playing and then God took Rachel in the spirit to this church and then she led both of them back to Rachel’s house. God gave this boy the name Charlie and he is new. I won’t go too much into ‘how’ he became a soul wandering in the world, because 99% of the time it is unspeakable and a constant reminder how evil humanity is when we turn from God. Thank the Lord, he is already adjusting well and we will celebrate his birthday with his favorite foods one of these days, and he likes to watch Netflix with us and his new brothers and sisters.
The next part of this story involves a little girl around the same age as Charlie. God brought this little girl's soul to Rachel just out of the blue a few days back and her name is Ginevrah. I add this because this is the first time we’ve ever adopted a little child that came from a muslim family. She is wearing the little scarf on her head (hijab) and a long light brown burka which covers her body, and has black sandals. She is so cute and comes from a long line up from Saudi Arabia. She has a line up with modern day ISIS and I guess we are adding this because God’s salvation is for all and for any who call on HIM! She was in the world for 1250 years and part of her salvation was that she clung to a young man named Peter who was going to be a priest. She was constantly wandering the earth but the angel was always with her. She, like Charlie is around 2 years old. Tonight we had a nice dinner with pizza and fettucine and salad and they were enjoying it and eating with their hands and slurping the noodles! They enjoyed watching a cartoon called, “Spirit riding free” on Netflix about a young girl and her horse and when they saw the kids hugging, then these little ones would hug each other also. It was so cute and I just thought it would be nice to add something lighter than usual.
On a separate note, it is exactly two weeks from today that I will be heading to Rome (Rachel is leaving a day before me (August 8th) with her son and going to their home town for three days-We will then meet up in Rome on the 11th). Please pray for both of us because it is usually around 37-40 degrees for most of August in the city at that time and as I mentioned a million times before, that it will be so difficult with a wheelchair and getting in and out of buses etc. Italy doesn’t “DO” accessibility just like they don’t really do Wifi very well! I don’t know, maybe things have gotten better since I was there in 2013.
Thanks again and don’t forget to check out the original purpose for posting. It is in the testimonial section (Victory Wall/Testimonials) under “Rachel’s Uncle Luigi”. You can also click the link below to get to it!
Rachel's Uncle Luigi
God bless and take care.
