No rest today
Written last Sunday night:
You never know what you're going to hear on the radio in a Bangkok taxi.
Mostly you hear pop music from Isaan, the northeast Thailand region where most construction workers, taxi drivers and bar girls come from. But sometimes there are surprisingly old Western songs. Today, on the way to send Gai's younger sister Jiap to the bus station, it was "Never on Sunday", by the Chordettes, 1961 (I had to look it up of course):
Oh, you can kiss me on a Monday a Monday a Monday
is very very good
Or you can kiss me on a Tuesday a Tuesday a Tuesday
in fact I wish you would
Or you can kiss me on a Wednesday a Thursday a
Friday and Saturday is best
But never ever on a Sunday a Sunday a Sunday
cause that's my day of rest
I was running around all day visiting people and got no rest. One person that I saw along with Kristy, one of our International Mission Board workers, was Pear, our 13 year-old. Pear has not been at The Well for a few weeks, and has been living/working at a night restaurant staffed by sexily-dressed waitresses. Tonight she had on a disturbingly short skirt. We're praying and working hard on how we can rescue her back, but her mother has been completely unhelpful. Tonight I mentioned to Pear that her mother told me on the phone that she hadn't heard from Pear in many days. Pear said has not seen her since she moved back home and her mother said that she loved Pear's little half brother more than Pear. Based on our experience with her mother, we'd have to say it likely did happen.
Pear is in a desparate situation that may call for a desparate measure. One possible solution we're considering is to ask Pear's mother to sign over guardian rights to Judy and I and actually bring her into our home. That route is fraught with pitfalls for our own family, so we're stepping very carefully. A better solution may be a teen girls' home we know in Chiang Mai, so we are pursuing that as well. We still see a huge need to begin a teen home and school closer to Bangkok.
Rest is coming. For the next few days Judy and I will be at a free retreat for missionaries in Phuket.
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