I am sitting here trying to figure out what all to tell you
after a month on the ground.
- I
could tell you about the day Marcia and I went to speak at an AIDS support
group – six or 8 brave people who meet under a tree every other week to
encourage each other in their struggle.
- Then
there was the day Marcia went with a medical team that was here to the
hospital – and walked in a room as the 1 year old baby of a very young
single mother died of accidental (albeit suspicious) poisoning.
Since then the girl has come to church
with us and wants to come back again.
- The
men’s meeting where I taught on how to plan your life to reach your dreams
(ironic that my life has seen little planning but I have attained some
dreams).
- The
van that rolled on its side with 8 teenage American girls in it, the fact
none of them were seriously injured, that we were up with them until the
middle of the night being checked out at the clinic and calling their
parents, and watching them laugh their way through most all of the
accident that could have been so much worse. - The
month of June had close to 200 Americans coming through
Swaziland for anywhere from 2
weeks to the entire month.
Lots of
coordinating, relating, planning, logistics, meetings, conflict resolution,
and ministry happening and Marcia and I were in the thick of it all.
Embrace the chaos! - Josiah
has safely been to
Zimbabwe
and back on an adventure that turned out very different than he had
planned.
- Gardens
planted, a kitchen built, gogo appreciations, medical clinics, pastor
training seminars.
It’s been a full month and a lot more to tell and it would
take a lot of updates to explain all this.
Between the bullet points there is a lot of laughter and sorry and deep
contemplation.
There are still the imponderables
and the unanswerable questions of why (Lord) and how (Lord) and when
(Lord).
What we do here is a drop in the
bucket, but somehow in that drop is more life than a bucket of drops in
Georgia.
There is no bigger paycheck than the one that
comes when you make a difference, however small, in the world around you.
