a week of curfews

These are some of the photos from the past week. Reminded me somewhat of the chaos created when they announce a hurricane in Florida and everyone runs for the gorcery store, only here there was a bit more panic after several days of curfews. (We joked that now in our 40's we have a 6pm curfew, but it really isn't a joke.) In parts of town, people looted grocery stores and left them empty. Folks say there's not much US news coverage on this. We had hoped to see something on Fox after their interview last week with the current President, but most of what we've found (other than Spanish papers) is reported by the Wall Street Journal and BBC. Seems the focus there is on the UN meetings. One newspaper here reported that in these meetings," Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez,invited his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, to be consistent with the ideas and convert to socialisms proclaims as "salvation" of the world ruined by capitalism as in the case of Honduras." Can't believe he could say that without some reaction, but I guess there were a few other offensive remarks from different parties to get folks stirred up.

Here in our little mountain community we are largely sheltered from what is going on in the city. Things had been quiet here. Even the dogs have no one to bark at and traffic up and down the hill is greatly reduced. We went to a potluck for lunch and swam afterward. Our older boys decided to head home early and were sitting in our front room when they saw a face in the window. They went to check it out and saw two guys hopping over our wall. Turns out they'd been in our bedroom and helped themselves to a DVD player. It's a little disconcerting to have your house broken into. I realize it happens everywhere and as times get harder may be even more frequent, but it brought the looting closer to home. We're glad God had the boys here or it could have been much worse.

School is still out for Friday. People are concerned about the possibility of trouble and it seems most of the bi-lingual schools have decided to wait until Monday at least. Zelaya has stated from the Brazilian Embassy where he is camped out, "From now on, nobody gets us out of here again, so our position is homeland, restitution, or death." When we arrived in August it was a few agitators writing graffiti on walls, now it has escalated to the pictures above and is supposedly costing Honduras $50 million a day by people not being able to work. Common folks are the ones who suffer most.

Please keep praying for this country- that God will use all of these situations for His own glory in the school and His church here. Perhaps these situations will make it more obvious to those who claim Christ that living a consistent life is a daily choice. And for all of us who claim Christ, this choice may become harder as His return becomes more imminent.