Saturday I wrote about a student who had a few items stolen from him at school. Yesterday we visited him and basically calmed him down. He was pretty distraught over the incident because he has a strong sense of morality and a genuine fear of God. He couldn’t understand why a fellow student would want to do this and kept saying “he has no fear of God.”
We explained to him these things happen in a fallen world and our options are to either be angry about it (which I admit I was at first) or know that God is in control and ask for His help throughout (made it to this point very early Sunday morning through prayer). His foot locker needed to be replaced because the thief couldn’t break the padlocks on it so instead broke the hinges. We happened to have an extra foot locker at the house, thank you God!
He was given enough money for a new uniform shirt and transport back home at mid-term (both of which were stolen). He is planning on giving his transport money to the school accountant for safe keeping! Once he saw things were working out, we weren’t mad at him and we could all move forward, he was much calmer and you could see the stress leaving his face. He is currently #1 in his school and we encouraged him to let this go and focus once more on his studies.
Yes it was a bummer we had to pay to replace stolen items, that the incident happened in the first place, a trip had to be made to the school and he was stressed for a few hours but I thank God He worked it all out smoothly, or as smoothly as it gets here in Kenya!