Working with AIDS patients

The beautiful ladies who care for patients and clients at PIH clinic

Do you sometimes get stuck in your routine and lose sight of how God is working in your life--in big and small ways? I sort of had a mini-revelation about that today. I was at Bible Study and Beth Moore was sharing in her study, Stepping Up, about her desire to work with HIV patients and how she had the opportunity to do just that in South Africa sometime back. I found myself thinking about what a wonderful and life-changing experience that must have been for her. And then it sort of hit me--every day I am at clinic I have the opportunity to minister to patients suffering from HIV and AIDS. It sort of boggled my mind, that each and every patient we care for in Moyo clinic has the HIV virus. When I stop to think of that it is staggering--and the Enemy can come in and make me start judging patients decisions that led to them contracting HIV or maybe I will get overwhelmed at the problem of HIV and the many barriers out there to stopping the spread of this deadly virus. But I forget that God is bigger than all of those obstacles, and that God loves each and every one of these patients enough to send his Son to die for them. And then the routine of my job becomes a divine calling--to demonstrate the love of Christ through caring for their medical needs. You might be thinking, "Isn't that obvious? Isn't that why you moved to Malawi?" It is true--but we, or at least I, too easily fall into routine and sometimes lose sight of God's greater purpose for my daily schedule. May you see God at work in your life today too.

The Azungu (foreign/white) staff at PIH: front row--Amanda Fielder, me, Mike. Back row--Jon Fielder (new doc), Jessica McMillan, Brenda Jansen, Perry Jansen, Becky Lengle(a visiting nurse). We were all celebrating Amanda's b-day