fish for dinner?

Today I was helping the building crew. They let me install the 6 panes of glass for Stella's new office. They actually were impressed. I never told them I had glazed windows from my childhood. After lunch, we were laid block preparing the foundation for the new grocery store.

It is amazing what you learn while you are doing a job along side guys from another culture. I have to admit they have not taught me any new techniques over the past two years of working with them. Their ways are usually primitive and nothing I would choose to use back home. What I have learned from them are more in the ways of their culture,views on life and their curiosity of me and my country. Today a lady passed by us with a large tub on her head. She stopped and set the tub with it's contents on the ground. The guys stopped working and gathered around. I went over to see the excitement. She had a tub of freshly caught fish for sale.

I asked James,"How much are the fish?" She was selling 8 for 30 thousand kwatcha. That is about 9 dollars.I went inside my guest house to get my camera and while there checked my cash. I went back outside and gave 30 thousand kwatcha to Kelvin. I told him to buy as many fish as he could with the money and divide it among our workers. They all scrambled for a piece of plastic wrap off the ground to carry their fish.

We went back to work but with a different attitude. These guys were pumped. They were having fish for supper! I had no idea how many people I just fed for less than $10.I am sure there are many biblical applications I could ponder and apply. Maybe at a later date I will. For now I will rest tonight knowing the abundance of my life and the new friends I have met will have fish tonight for supper.