Sometimes Things Come in Fours

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Published: Sunday, 19 July 2009 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

Well… some people say that things come in threes... Looking at the last couple weeks... I’d say they come in fours...

Right now with the baby still pretty small, I’m more at my house, but go over to El Jordán a couple times a week when there is something I can do... or if there are girls that need someone to talk to.  The cell phone keeps me more connected with our girls as well...

Abraham asked if I’d be able to come talk to Eisa who showed up at the office distraught... She had some unexpected bleeding... gone to see a doctor who told her she had been pregnant... but the baby had died... and she needed to go to the hospital and get cleaned out...   At the hospital they took more tests... and announced that the baby was still alive... but growing outside the womb... She needed to come back the following week... and if the baby was still outside, they would have to clean her out...  

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Dying to be Loved

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Published: Sunday, 28 June 2009 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

Our “little one”, Keiden, turned 6 weeks old today…  We can hardly remember life before him... and can barely imagine life without him...  We love him so much...and are so grateful to God... who gave him to us...

Keiden dressed in his Sunday best for church this morning... at one point in the service I turned my head and saw a pediatrician... it crossed my mind that I should ask him about a little rash Keiden has on his face... when all of a sudden I had a very vivid flashback...

I was holding a baby... the same size as Keiden... only this baby was 5 months old instead of 6 weeks.. What I remember was his hands although it was probably spread all over his body... They were covered with a horrible skin problem...  Thick, scaly... very ugly...  The little guy was lethargic... didn’t move around, kick or coo...

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Waiting

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Published: Thursday, 14 May 2009 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

Well… here we are...waiting ...

A student at El Jordan who was due a couple weeks after me already had her baby a week and a half ago… so that makes it seem like I’m late… although I’m not actually “due” until this Saturday (the 16th).

My doctor was a bit worried about some irregularity in the heartbeat of the baby that came with some tightening of my uterus… that she thinks is due to me feeling so good that I still want to race around… so for the baby’s sake, I’m trying to be “quieter”… although that isn’t easy for me…  Last night we had another appointment with her and she was happy with how everything sounded… my blood pressure etc… so all we have to do is WAIT!

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Updates on Ruth and Patricia

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Published: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

In my last update, I said that I would try to write more about Patricia… who, after chapel, I dropped off at a corner with her three kids and big bag of bananas where we  thought a bus would pick her up…  A couple hours later, she was still waiting…  I took her home – one room made of tarp and tin… We carried the sleepy kids through mucky water to get to her “home” - which I never saw because it was pitch black…  It broke my heart to leave them in the darkness while I went home… to comfort… a bathroom, shower, warmth and bed…

I met Patricia not long after she arrived in jail with her two small kids…  For a while, she showed interest in learning about the Bible and God… but the struggle of being alone… with her two kids.... and no visitors won over… and she began avoiding me while starting a relationship with someone in men’s jail…

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