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Electricity?
On…. Off… On… Off… The sweat dripping down their faces, as things are created. This is life in Lebanon right now. Fuel shortages means that the generators that normally make up for the lack of government electricity are not working.
Everything comes on and there is a cheer! The A/C is coming!
Lebanon has been struggling with fuel for a while now, but this is something different. Some areas have no generator because their fuel is out and they are unable to get more, leaving the residents with one hour in 24 of electricity. Others have many hours of electricity without the need for the generator at all. People who already cannot afford food, now struggle because anything they have frozen trying to save, is now going bad.
Our summer camp has changed hours to try to meet the hours that we are told there will be generator, but we still end up doing our classes in the dark, and adjust as much as we need. Moving from plan A to B and if necessary plan C.
There is no end in sight to these issues. Politicians argue and the people melt in the heat along with their frozen foods. But, these are the times that our faith is tested, and the truths that we know and hold to for Lebanon deep in our hearts arise.
Despite corruption and need, the Bible tells us that Lebanon will be a fruitful field and this is what we are fighting for. This, is why we continue to work in the face of frustrations and hardships, because God believes that Lebanon is worth it. So we tie our hope to His hope and believe that what He said will be, will be.
He said it and He will do it. Until then we will see the small seeds, of what He is doing in peoples lives and stand with them. When people become who they were meant to be, the nation will transform into what it is meant to be.
