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Tonight marked one year since the day Makerere stumbled into my yard with his leg charred to the bone. To remember ho far God has carried us, we had a little celebration. We celebrated healed legs and healed hearts. We celebrated strangers-turned-family. We celebrated Jesus\u2019s kept promise of beauty from ashes. We celebrated life.<\/p>\n

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Just feet from the white and pink frosted cake, on my couch, lay a little boy who is fighting death. 7 years old and merely 20 pounds, HIV snuck up on his family causing his rapid weight loss. Now he lays, under piles of blankets battling severe acute malnutrition.<\/div>\n
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There is not really a space in my brain or my heart for this \u2013 life celebration cake with 18 happy people and 5 ml dropper-fulls of life saving, electrolyte balancing solution into a mouth struggling to hold on, all together in one room.<\/div>\n
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This is what I know: He is faithful. He is before all things and in Him all things hold together. He gives and He takes away. And as I humbly ask you for your prayers, I will bless His name.<\/div>\n
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O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.<\/div>\n
I adore You, perfect, faithful God.<\/i><\/div>\n
You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from heat.<\/div>\n
I adore You God, my refuge, my shelter, my hiding place.<\/i><\/div>\n
On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine \u2013 the best of meats and the finest of wines.<\/div>\n
I adore You, extravagant, gift-lavishing Father.<\/i><\/div>\n
On this mountain He will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers nations; He will swallow up death forever.<\/div>\n
I adore you Oh, God! Our redeemer and Savior!<\/i><\/div>\n
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; He will remove the disgrace of His people from all the earth.<\/div>\n
I adore you, Oh God my comfort, the lifter of my head.<\/i><\/div>\n
In that day we will say, \u201cSurely this is our God; we trusted Him and He saved us! This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.\u201d<\/div>\n
I adore You, Lord, my trustworthy, promise-keeping Savior.<\/i><\/div>\n

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He is Lord over the life celebration and Lord over severe acute malnutrition. He is good in the life celebration, and He is good <\/i>in the severe acute malnutrition. He is. <\/i>Thank you Jesus.<\/div>\n
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*Awesome photos by my awesome friend Kate*<\/span><\/div>\n
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