Quick Praise Report

God is so good. We say this quite casually and we mean it on some level. In reality God is always good. His nature is such that He can only do right. Our perception is that when something goes as we would like it, God is good. What about when we don't like the event??? All that to say this, last night the electricity went out during a thunder storm. This is Togo, the electricity goes out when someone at the electric company sneezes. However, about 2130 hours the neighbors had some light and Tchalla hit the reset breaker on the main incoming with the result that we had a little electricity. I mean a little. Some lights came on dimly, some full bright and some not at all. Different parts of the house with different results. Here in Togo we have 220 volt four wires system. Reasoning that we only had three of the four powered, I waited for the electrician to respond in the morning. His diagnosis was that one of the four wires had no power and it was from either on the electric companies part or the actual main coming into the house. We would have to go physically to the electric company on MONDAY and ask if they would be so kind as to have someone check it out. BTW also lost internet modem while still having dial tone (yes it is dial up at 512 bps) another go to town and ask for help.....

Expecting twelve of my Togolese family for our quarterly diner at 1800hrs this evening I was ready to break out the flashlights and tape them to their forks so we could find fthe food in front of us.
God intervened in His own time. By two in the afternoon the electric company realizing that they had a problem, fixed it. Then, about the same time Christophe went to an internet cafe to email my children that i would not be in communication until next ?????? The internet came up with no help from me.
As a result you get this l o n g praise report.
Did I mention that I love this place....?