Rough Days of Blessing
Yesterday was a rough day. Both Shari and I were not feeling at all well. And we were concerned about sick friends, such as our friend Miguel whom I mentioned on Twitter. Challenges with the niños. And yet, God still has ways of blessing us.
I woke up feeling worse than usual, but managed to get ready for an event at Hannah’s school. Yesterday I was to accompany some of the classes on keyboard, while they sang the state and national anthems.
As I was leaving the house, I somehow (!) slammed my finger in our front door – right hand, middle finger.
Right away, I rushed in and got an icepack, holding my now swelling, throbbing finger in the ice all the way to the school. Which was a longer trip than usual – I took a wrong turn and got lost in a residential maze.
But – praise the Lord – the finger was all right when it came time to play, and everything seemed to go all right. The children did great!
Afterwards, in fact, a couple of teens came up to me, asking if I taught keyboard. Turns out one of them lives in Jesús María, and he and his sister are both interested in learning keyboard. Could be, if I do the class again, that I’ll have some new students.
Overall, I’ve had some good times at Hannah’s school, and I’m now recognized by name by quite a few of the students and faculty.
I managed to revive enough to do a keyboard class in the evening, which was fun as usual. It was the last class, although we have a practice on Thursday for our big event on Friday.
It’s been quite a run, those classes – and now I have a good set of material to work from if I teach the class again.
Shari was, of course, on the run all day, but I finally saw her briefly in the evening. We traded off and she left for a surprise birthday party for our friend Aurora. I helped some more with the kids’ homework, cleaned up a few things, did some other work I needed to get done, and crashed.
Challenging days – but in the middle of it all, good times with lots of people, and God’s grace most of all.