Beginning of School Year and "Stuff"

We are already into our second week of school. We had a good spiritual emphasis week. With a strong emphasis on our service to God, we see our students ready and willing to be involved in God's work. So far we have been pleased with our enrollment. With 23 in Preparatoria and 28 in the University, we have reached our goal of 50 new students. We will also be seeing a few more students arrive in the next several days. While we would like all of our students to arrive on time, things don't always work that way!

About our "stuff," a few days ago, someone came into our front driveway area and stole our childrens' bikes. Ana and Aaron were quite devastated. They couldn't understand why it had happened. This incident served as a wonderful opportunity to help our children understand that "it's just stuff." We can still be happy and thankful even though we don't have our bikes.

I guess the Lord wanted to make sure that we were practicing what we preach because yesterday I came out of the University, got in the van, only to discover that someone had stolen our cd player out of the van. What was really amazing was that it was on the street right next to the University, between 8am and 1pm, where University students and teachers walk all the time! This is at least the fourth car that has been broken into in the last several months. Someone, apparently pretty well known in our environment, seems to be picking on church people. They also took the gate opener, which means they can open the front gate of our house. We hope to be able to re-program the opener shortly.

We are grateful for all the "stuff" that God has blessed us with. And while we are disappointed when people take it, "it's just stuff," and we have many larger blessings that we are thankful for.