Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Bombarded

Bro. Lorenzo &
clothes donation
My facebook has been hacked and now I cannot enter it except sometimes through my cellphone.  Or rather I think it's something else - when someone repeatedly bombards my page with so many views, the page collapses. This is so frustrating. Now I don't know what to do. Any suggestions?

So my heel pain is diagnosed as plantar fasciitis due to too much walking and flat foot. I'll have to walk less ... which is impossible. But getting insoles in the shoes is possible. I'll go to a podiatrist as soon as I can walk there. Hahahahahaha.

For the past 2 weeks I've been gathering donations of clothes and medicines and transporting them to the MC convent in Bethlehem. The sudden cold has made the poor people suffer much, especially because there is no electricity. They need thick winter clothes. bethlehem is higher in altitude than Jerusalem so it usually is several degrees colder. Some seminarians help me load the bags of donations unto the car each time as I'm unable to do it all by myself. But after 3 transfers, the borders have been closed and now we're not able to enter the town from Israel. Anyone who enters Bethlehem or the palestinian Territories must be quarantined for 14 days. That's really tough for the people inside in the territories. To show you how a=bad the situation is, UNRWA is appealing for help as they're down in funds. America had cut off funding so the agency cannot provide food, medicine, education to the palestinians. Please pray that our small amount of help is able to get in there soon.

There's been clashes among citizens today when outdoor malls were allowed to open. Crowds lined up for hours to buy clothes and other stuff, and shops are allowed only 4 persons inside each time. As a result tempers flared and verbal and physical clashes resulted. It's so unfortunate that people no longer learn to bear with one another anymore.