This weekend my Mother is at an event she's been with Stephanie and/or Vincent and me twice in the past few years: the Florida American Association of University Women (AAUW) state convention, an event that she has led twice. This year Mom finds both her knees and her back bothering her, and, without Stephanie there to help, awaiting knee surgery but also finding her back bothering her, and stuck in a very long hotel (same Daytona Beach hotel [pictured above] where I stayed for a meeting back in January) where she has to walk a lot, she's really struggling. Hopefully, knee surgery will improve things somewhat. But Friday morning as she tried to pack and load her car, she wondered if her traveling days are over.
The family of one of Stephanie's students, Ben, has been without food for the past week. Apparently, they either didn't know about food pantries or couldn't find anyone at a New Albany food shelf who spoke Spanish. So they've been eating lentils for a week. One of Stephanie's Spanish-speaking colleagues got on the phone to try to track something down for them Thursday. His father spent Thursday night in the emergency room after passing out at the dinner table. He works doing construction and has fiber glass in his lungs. And his mother is very pregnant.
If you pray, you might pray for healing, discernment, and patience of my Mom and for nourishment, determination, and support for Stephanie's student and his family. Also keep Stephanie's mom in your prayers for encouragement, strength, and healing.
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Where is the school's social worker??!!
Funny, last week, an ESOL dad wrote me an angry reply to my suggestion that his daughters eat some oatmeal, a granola bar and fruit for breakfast since they don't have much time to eat in the morning due to riding the ESOL bus and they came to me stating they were hungry at 9am. They had supposedly only eaten a Pop Tart. The dad thought I was accusing him of being a bad parent.
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