{"id":2109,"date":"2014-01-20T05:07:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2014-01-20T05:07:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T12:07:06","slug":"this-is-all-weve-got-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/this-is-all-weve-got-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"This is All We’ve Got Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Jon Post<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been trying to write this for a while now. I hate it. I\u2019ve started a few times and keep ending up feeling like I\u2019m forcing something out and trying to do a nice mix of emotion, encouragement, spirituality, faith, and all the other nouns or adjective-nouns that are used to describe what we do\/write.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t do that right now.<\/p>\n

So here you go:<\/p>\n

Eliza died last month. Her tumor grew so big it shut her throat and she couldn\u2019t eat or speak. She died in pan. We couldn\u2019t be there.<\/p>\n

Filomena is suffering immense pain, her weight has dropped dangerously low, and her phone number, our only way to communicate with her stopped working. A neighbor in her town far to the northern part of this country tells us she\u2019s been admitted to the hospital there and is dying.<\/p>\n

Zakarias came to live with us along with his wife and two year old child. I\u2019ve had many conversations with him since he arrived last Tuesday about his health. He\u2019s dying. He only came back because the pain was too intense and there was no way to get any medicine to control it so he came here. We are trying to help him.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re finding moderate success.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s dying.<\/p>\n

\"Dosma<\/a>

Dosma at the Beach<\/p><\/div>\n

Two weeks ago a young man named Dosma, an 18 year old boy who had come back to the hospital from his village of Calimane, died. I had known him almost two years. About a year and a half ago I took him to the beach and the little shopping mall that\u2019s near the beach. We spent the afternoon talking and thinking about home, the farm, school, his first girlfriend, his mother, my money, his desire to be rich, his need for Christ.<\/p>\n

He died two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

This has been a tough start to 2014.<\/p>\n

Pray for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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