Almost There! (12/5/2001)

It is so close that we can taste, touch, smell, see and hear it!  The front half of our hospital is almost complete!  It is hard to be patient!  I want to move in right now! 

We “tasted” it on Thanksgiving Day when 45 North American missionaries celebrated a traditional Thanksgiving meal in the lobby.  

 

We can touch the counters, doors, windows etc, and feel the reality of them. 

 

We can smell the newness, the fresh paint, the cut wood, the glue for the flooring and baseboard, the dust from construction, and the wax for the floors. 

 

We can see the walls and rooms, and imagine them completed with shelving and furniture and full of patients and staff.  

 

And we can hear the sounds of the workers running the buffer and the saw, moving things, and their joyful voices as they see the job almost complete, a dream almost fulfilled.  They were here when this was nothing more than an overgrown field!

 

We had hoped to be in the “clinic” half of the hospital be now, but we have fallen prey to the terrorists, like everyone else, as well as the usual delays encountered in Honduras.  Our last container of building supplies was held up in The States, and some of our teams canceled or were reduced in number due to travel restrictions and concerns right after the attack.  But it won’t be long now!

 

So, as I try to be patient, knowing that to move prematurely will cause problems in finishing.  But as I am waiting for the last coat of paint, the baseboards, the plumbing hooked up, shelving to be built, I am in my mind, already there!

 

Dave Drozek, with

 

Thoughts from Honduras