By His Grace

Yesterday I went into Accra with Auntie Nancy. She let me bum around with her while she ran some errands. While we were out we went to Military Hospital to visit her house keeper that was involved in a horrible car accident on 23 December. She was standing behind a kiosk and a taxi hit her breaking both of her legs. She was in the hospital a month before she had her surgery to put a pin the left ankle and then to put a p.o.p. (cast) on the right leg. She was suppose to have the surgery on a Saturday but they came a day early and got her on Friday for the surgery. The problem with that was that she had already eaten so they could not give her the anesthesia so she was awake for the surgery. I heard about this in January and it turned my stomach hearing about it I can’t believe actually going through that. Someone cutting my ankle open and putting a pin through the bone while I’m awake! No thank you! But she did it. This wonderful lady has four children (one of which just started working for Libbie and Rob) and no income at the moment because she has been in the hospital for so long. I tell you all this so that when I tell you about our visit to her you will understand my amazement.

When we walked into the hospital room there were six beds in the room all there for different reasons. Madam Comfort’s bed was the second one in the room and I could instantly tell that she was the light of that room. Her smile was so bright and welcoming. For our entire visit she did not have a single bad thing to say about her situation. Instead she gave all glory and praise to God for sparing her life and helping her recover. I sat on her left side and I looked down at her left foot and there was a huge metal pin sticking out of her heel and a p.o.p. on her right leg from her thigh to her ankle and no word of discomfort from her lips. She sang a hymn to us saying that if she ever starts feeling sorry for herself she sings this is hymn and it makes her smile. “God gives me nothing I can not carry, that’s what the Bible tells me.” There is really no word when she will be discharged yet. The doctor did not come last week so hopefully this week they can get an x-ray done and she how she is healing. I tell you it is people like her that make me want to sing and shout glories to God for bringing me so far.

I have met people with more courage here than anywhere I have ever been. People live on top of each other scrambling to sell water for c300 (three cents), taxi drivers giving almost eighty percent of their daily wages to the man that hires them, mothers carrying their babies on their backs everyday to work selling bread on the street. Everyday I see this and when you ask them how they are doing “Oh by His grace” is their response. One thing I admire about Ghanaians is that I have not heard one person take the credit for anything they have. It has all been given to them by God. May it be talent or success or a beautiful baby its all through God and they know it.

I thank God for people like Madam Comfort that show me that God is sovereign in every situation. He is faithful and true to those that follow Him. Everybody needs to be reminded of that and I am everyday by looking at the children that I teach and love. God has been faithful to them by bringing them here to a place where they can be safe and be shown God’s love everyday.

A very thankful Sarah!