Mombasa, Kenya
May 2014
Dear Family and Friends,

Recently, we visited an old Arab city nearby where we found this huge Baobab tree. It is over 500 years old!!! Baobabs are 90% water and they can live for 10 years without rain! I look kind of insignificant standing in front of it. Sometimes I feel insignificant in light of all the problems and troubles there are in the world. The last couple of weeks have brought several violent incidents to Kenya and three out of four were here in Mombasa. People keep forgetting that we are one family and we only hurt ourselves when we hurt one another.
Then last Wednesday I saw the little boy that I mentioned in my December newsletter. When I called the mother she didn't come into the office. She put the little fellow on the doorstep and he walked in himself!!! I first saw him in April last year. He was one year old and couldn't sit up. His muscles were all very floppy. Now, at two years, he is standing by himself and flapping his arms like the little angel that he is. It was very hard to get this picture because he was not at all interested in posing for the camera. A small dose of thyroid medicine has given him the strength to grow more normally and behave very mischievously. For me Easter has come early because he has more energy and his life is renewed.
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| HAPPY EASTER!!! |
So when we feel insignificant let us remember that we are part of a much greater whole. And when we feel like there isn't much we can do, let us do what we can and then wait and see what God will do with us. You are a great part of what we do and we are very grateful.
Blessings,
Susan Nagele
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Sorry I haven't quite got this blog format down having done my newsletter on another document. My blog expert, Mary, is coming for a visit in June. We are all super excited and maybe she can get me straightened out!!!
PEACE OF GENTLE ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER TO YOU!!!


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