I love those verses sincere love is acting in the ways of love and doing it with the right motives. Any one can do actions of love. Holding the door open for someone, helping with the dishes, letting someone in in front of you in a traffic jam are all actions of love. But if the "feeling" of love isn't attached to the action then good chance the motive was wrong and it counts for nothing.
So now that we have an extra person in our family we felt a little cramped in our 672 square apartment. So after thinking through some options and considering opinions from our great friends we decided to go with Mr Tony Giesen's idea. The room next to our used to be occupied by another volunteer who was a house mom and teacher here for almost a year and a half, but she is gone now. So we decided to open up a door way between her 286 square foot room and ours giving us a total of two bedrooms and 958 square feet. Doing this type of construction here is a little different than it was back in Canada, Wow does it ever get messy, the walls are literally made out of mud covered with plaster. And of course I got my Peruvian buddy to show me what's the best way to go about it. Well he grabs a strait pick and just starts bashing the wall with it, and before long he's got a good size hole. It amazed me how clean and accurate the hole was when it was done, the door jam fit in perfectly.
This option was much quicker and easier than building a whole new room, but of course now we lost a boarding room for upcoming volunteers but we will cross that bridge when we get there. We currently have one small and one large apartment available so we're good for now. We are lacking on volunteers right now which is costing us a lot of extra money for hired house moms, but God will provide.
There are certain things that are hard about living at an orphanage with your family. For legal reasons the kids are not allowed in our home or anywhere on the volunteers premises so it's often very hard to go "home" and close the gate so the cute little girl can't follow you. And on the other hand it's hard to see the sad face on your own child when they see daddy giving so much attention to the other kids. And I don't want my little Tahlia to grow up too fast but it will be sort of nice when she is a little older so mommy will have a little more free time. God has been so good to my family I truly feel very blessed. I am humbled every day by the love we receive from every direction. Thank you to all who pray for Casa de Paz and our family, your prayers are being answered daily. Bless you and may your day be filled with God's great love and mercy.
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