Day 8

After another hug for their mother, the children wanted to get started right away. So they used whatever they could find to dig a small garden patch.

As she was digging up chunks of earth, a sudden fear came over Beatrice. She went to her mother and quietly asked, “What about Dad? Won’t he be angry that you won’t be making his medicine anymore?”

“Probably,” Leah replied. “But you let me worry about that. Let us love him and pray for him. I believe that he will find Jesus again too. Beatrice, I want to explain something to you.”

As Beatrice and her mother worked side by side, Leah shared with her daughter. “During the training I remembered the time we used to go to church and worship God. Do you remember how we would often talk about Jesus? How we felt as if He was walking alongside us, guiding us through life? Do you remember living this way when you were a little girl?”

Beatrice nodded her head, remembering when things were like that in their home. Her mom continued, “I lost sight of Jesus and became very lost. But now I have been found, forgiven, and set free! I praise God for my new friends and the wonderful people at the ELI training center I went to last week. What I learned was wonderful and has the power to change our future.”