Potential

As I first stepped into the completed Danja Fistula Center, where back in March it had been just walls with unfinished rooms now there was a hospital. There stood a clinic, an operating room, a ward! I walked around this big empty space and just felt in awe of the potential of this place. Lord willing this will be a place of healing. In time it has the potential to help hundreds and then thousands of women that will walk into this place in search of a new beginning. My prayer of dedication for this place is that it will be exactly that, a place of healing for bodies and for souls. As we got started working for the first time in this facility we found as with any trial run many kinks; sinks that leak, fuses that blow, things that don't work, and a very confusing system of a different key for every one of the more than 30 doors. As I sat and thought about this new place and all it's problems and how they are trying to hide the potential it made me think of how we are as humans. God created us in his image and then in our humanness and sin the kinks come out and they try to obscure the potential and hinder the good we are capable of accomplishing. We sin and break down and turn away and we break God's heart. But hallelujah this is not the end of the story, Jesus died and rose again and his blood covers our imperfections. I believe that despite the trials and struggles of this first week that this new hospital can reach it's potential even with the bumpy road ahead. I know that at least for the 12 women that we operated on with this trip that they did find hope here in this place. They found laughter and friendship and healing and that is a great starting point.