Monsoon

June is the first of four months of monsoon. June is usually light rain while July & August pour down cats and dogs. (Really, just look out our window! :) It's amazing what only a month of light rains does to our landscape. Here it was at the end of May, 2008, and the river is dry:

Thirty days later, our river is full, we have several waterfalls, and everything is instantly green. It looks like this:

Now, pray with us that the river stays within it's banks, and that our ceilings don't rain down water, or actually fall down as one of our neighbor's did! We covered our terrace with plastic but it wasn't enough. We have been sleeping in wet beds, ruined a number of books and our clothes have mildewed. But God is giving us renewed prayers for our own place in March 2009. This building was built with very poor materials. Just part of the corruption that God desires to wipe out.  

  

Above you You can see the plastic tarps we have stretched over two front roofs and over our back yard terrace. The row house I'm standing on suffered much of the ceiling falling into the room on the front side. God is our refuge. He knows we're here. Not one of us has been sick and we praise Him! See YouTube for the video. We have also been without electric for seven hours as I write this, and God is fullfilling our needs in this department very soon. So, please, pray for us. We have learned not to keep much meat in the freezer, but our two dogs and two cats surely ate well. :)  But they needed it! It was God's gracious way to give them what they needed too. After all, they watch the house front and back, and the cats keep the rodent population under control.

God bless you, fiwl