This has been an amazing week being the "hands and feet" down here in Haiti. This morning was a totally new experience for me serving downtown at the wound clinic. After 4 of us from our team maneuvered our way into a van to total 18, we made our way downtown to an alley which were waiting over 200 people to be seen for either wound care or assessments for medicine or admission to the center for sick children. 2 of our teammates proceeded to tend to wounds while Mikell and I began dispensing medicine based on the care advisors' recommendations or prescriptions to be filled. My background in pharmaceuticals came in handy with categorizing on the table the antibiotics, anti fungals, anti-pain,etc. that the nurses were yelling out that needed to be filled within a matter of seconds.
At first I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of patients to be tended to. Each had a laminated number that were brought into our room in groups of 50. Using measuring tools to wonder if there was going to be enough medicine to cover all these patients can't apply to God's standards. When we try to use any human scale to measure God's wisdom and strength, we immediately realize that our measuring tools don't work. Instead of trying to wonder how in the world are we going to treat and dispense meds to all these people, God's strength is "weakness"- His provision was there! Loaves and fishes in action!
Margie
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