We all talked by phone with Loonni tonight.
She's the one with the most re-entry adjustment.
NO ONE ENVIES HER!
She's back to manual farming in NE rural Thailand.
It's rice planting season,
and she's trying to clean up her small wooden home on stilts,
to make it liveable again.
After 2 weeks back, her extended family have all come to visit her.
And ask for $ help for different things.
This is a boundary-less society, so she's used up most of the money she'd saved.
She still has some (about $800 USD)
and her son may be willing to get an eye surgery, which will help his esteem.
He hasn't gone back to school.
It's going to take a lot of God's patience and wisdom empowering her
in this tricky navigation:
how to come back on the scene as this teenager's mother.
He's not used to someone else being his boss.
But he's a sweet kid too.
She was always so patient with our boys, but she can really get frustrated and lose it with her son.
Please, pray with us that God will give her amazing patience and wisdom in guiding this boy onto a track that may give him a future out of poverty, and that in her victory of patience and grace, they will all see Jesus in her.
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