....BUT GOD CAN!!!!

What a truly awesome day we had yesterday! I can’t even begin to describe the way God moved throughout the clinic, especially in eyeglasses. The eyeglass team started our day with extreme prayer that God would guide us so that we could touch the lives of the Hondurans. We even blessed the eyedrops that we had to distribute. We jokingly called them ‘Holy Eyedrops’ but we sincerely prayed that God would touch the lives of whoever we gave them to and that they would see God’s love and share it with everyone they meet. We so desperately wanted to be able to meet their needs, knowing that sometimes we would not be able to…..but God could.

There was an older gentleman who had cataracts so bad that we couldn’t get a reading on his eyes. We both tried and wanted so desperately to give him something that would help but no idea what strength he needed. I prayed “Lord, help us to give him something to help him see” then reached in one of the boxes and pulled out a pair. He put them on and immediately started smiling from ear to ear and raising his hands in the air. He said they were ‘perfecto’. We couldn’t ever have picked the right pair…..but God could.

 A young girl who they told us couldn’t even read because she never could see well enough to learn in school seemed to be quite a challenge. She never smiled as we tried multiple times to get her still enough to get a reading and then kept shaking her head as we pulled out the computer matches. I don’t blame her. The glasses were hideous and none seemed to help her vision. We finally found a pair that looked nice for a young girl and asked her to look at the words in my bi-lingual Bible to see if the letters were clear. She proceeded to read the English side of the scripture perfectly! We asked did she know how to read in English and she said no. Then we told her that she just did. The entire family said ‘wow’ and were smiling and chattering about it. We’re still not sure how a little girl who everyone thought couldn’t even read, not only did, but did in perfect English. Maybe she couldn’t…..but God could.

There were a multitude of stories that just touched our hearts throughout the day and we were able to send everyone away from our station happy and blessed. We had just packed everything up and were discussing how awesome the day was, when triage said they had one more patient for us. A little 4 year old girl who had injured her eye and needed glasses. We looked at each other and discussed how impossible it is to read a small child’s eyes and had very few child glasses, much less any that would just have prescription in one eye. We didn’t want to mess up her other eye and besides we had already packed everything up and it would take a long time just to set the computer system back up and it was dark. But we knew we had to try. The little girl sat down scared of the machine as I leaned in to try to get a reading. We said a quick prayer for God to calm her and take control. After only one try, we got a reading and one possible match for her. I dug through the mound of bags and found the specified pair of glasses. A little larger than we would like for a child, but adjustable. They were clear glass for her good eye and an exact match for her injured eye. We put them on her and instantly had the biggest smile I’ve ever seen. She told us everything was clear! The odds of fitting her with glasses were off the charts and we KNOW we couldn’t do it….but God could.

We have seen the hand of God, we have felt His overwhelming presence, He has increased our faith and strengthened our spirits and today as we prepare for another day in the field, we know that we can’t do anything……BUT GOD CAN!!!!