I’ve been going to the hospital every Tuesday and Thursday still. 🙂 Every
time I quickly rush to the same corner of the children’s ward to see Philile
and Hawida. Philile will give me a squench (squeeze, yes) that ignites my heart
for hers. Every time. I have been so blessed in getting to know Philile.
Continually I find drastic differences between the life of a 20 year old in
Swaziland and in America. When I try to put myself in her shoes, even my
imagination comes up short. Philile tells me that I’m usually the only one who
visits her, but she’s told her brothers and mother that she has an American
friend who comes twice a week. They want to meet me (hah!). The past couple
times we’ve walked outside the ward and sat and talked while she eats her one
of two meals a day.
reason she hadn’t gone home is because the doctor loves them too much. Just
this past Tuesday, when walking up, Bodine said he saw her smile through the
window as she saw me walking by. The windows we were passing by were the rooms
for babies with TB. The doctors now think Hawida has TB because she has a bad
cough and is losing weight. Unreal. Right when I thought our prayers were
working, a turn for the worst. This pushed me more to minister to Philile. The
funny part is, Philile always ends up ministering to me. I will read her
scriptures from my Bible and then she’ll tell me her favorites and what God has
been teaching her. Last week she told me He’s been showing her how to reach out
to the other mother’s in the hospital and to be bold when speaking to them. How
incredible that she is finding faith in such a dark place!
Please continue to pray for Philile in this hard time. Oh and, for those of you
who know me well- Philile’s favorite song on my iPod is the acoustic version of
“All Around Me” by Flyleaf- AWESOME. 🙂
