When it rains, it pours.  As you know we were sued (twice) and had to close school for a month in order to pay.  This weekend, someone pried the school's office door open during the night and stole computers and money.  Today, we heard rumor that yet another former employee might sue us.

Friends, please pray.  It is an especially difficult time that the school is going through.

Good for the Soul

Because Sunday is a great day to read Hafiz with friends.  Enjoy!

Love wants to reach out and manhandle us, 

Break all our teacup talk of God. 

If you had the courage and could give the Beloved His choice, 

Some nights He would just drag you around the room by your hair, 

Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world 

That bring you no joy. 

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly 

And wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of truth 

That make you fight within yourself, dear one, 

And with others, 

Causing the world to weep on too many fine days. 

God wants to manhandle us, 

Lock us up in a tiny room with Himself 

And practice His dropkick. 

The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: 

Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. 

But when we hear He is in such a "playful drunken mood" 

Most everyone I know quickly packs their bags 

And hightails it out of town.

-Hafiz

Dropping Keys

The small man 

Builds cages

For everyone he knows

While the sage,

Who has to duck his head 

When the moon is low,

Keeps dropping keys all night long

For the

Beautiful

Rowdy

Prisoners.

-Hafiz

Even after all this time,

the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me"

Look what happens with a love like that.

It lights the whole sky.

-Hafiz

Ever since happiness heard your name,

it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

-Hafiz

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.  

I would like to see you living in better conditions.

-Hafiz

Unity

Although school closing for a month has been a difficult thing for all of us, we've all seen beauty come from it.  One of the beautiful things is unity.

When the announcement was made, instead of our teachers being upset over the decision, they supported Lala and April and offered money from their paychecks to help pay the debt.  When our students' parents heard the announcement, instead of being angry at us for closing school, they were angry at the injustice of it all.  They stood behind our decision.  Some of the parents that work for Mama Kathy and 2nd Story Goods offered to give from their pay to help the school.  When Grace's clinic staff heard of the news, they talked together about it and they, too, decided to give of their pay to help the school pay off the debt.

It is a beautiful thing when a community can take on a burden together.  Being able to watch members of the community have an opportunity to take ownership of the school and show their support for it and the children is an incredible thing.  Because of the generosity of the teachers, parents, and other members of the community, we will be able to reopen the school on October 9th or possibly even earlier!

Something that Satan intended to use to cause division is being used by God to bring unity in Jubilee.

Romans 8:28

All things work together for the good of those who love him.

Closing School

Today is supposed to be our first day of school, but instead went our kids arrive, we will be announcing to the students and parents that we have to close school for a month.  Please watch April's video blog below to hear why.

When it rains in Jubilee....

...it pours!  Most of the time, Jubilee looks like a desert.  When it doesn't look like a desert, it looks like a lake!