Update #2

Thank you so much for your support, prayers, and e-mails. Last week was very difficult for me because three of my patients passed away.
One was a 26 year old who took some traditional medicine that caused liver and renal failure. Another was the 11 YO girl I wrote about in my earlier post. I had given strict instructions to continue bagging her and checking her O2sats while I helped Dr. Foster in surgery. In the middle of the surgery I heard the mourning/yelling that occurs here in Angola when someone dies. The nurse told me it was time for her to go. I became very angry at this response. I need to ask forgiveness from this nurse when I see him. The last one, a 15 month old, died before I got to the hospital on Saturday morning, from amoebic dysentery and dehydration.
By Saturday night, my heart was very broken. I cried a lot.
Please pray for the people here, for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. You can pray for strength for me and for His touch and love to be seen through the workers here.
Thank you Courtney for sending this Psalm. It reminds us that He is FOR the oppressed/sick/hurting/abandoned.
Your prayers are much needed and appreciated!

Psalm 146

Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
I will praise the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

Put not your trust in princes,
in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
on that very day his plans perish.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord his God,
who made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them,
who keeps faith forever;
who executes justice for the oppressed,
who gives food to the hungry.

The Lord sets the prisoners free;
the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
the Lord loves the righteous.
The Lord watches over the sojourners;
he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

The Lord will reign forever,
your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise the Lord!

In Him who is ALWAYS faithful,
Marcela.