So, i realised that with the exception of that last 'westlife' related blog, the last few entries have been pretty serious, so i thought i would make you aware of a few good things that have been happening here in Burundi, good...and weird...
- Discovering on the plane that chocolate jelly isn't nearly as delicious as it sounds....not even close...
- Lying underneath the darkening sky on concrete heated by the hot african sun and a back worn out from a day lugging bricks around, watching the stars pop out one by one, reading the passage in Job (somewhere around Job 39 i think...) about how the Lord is the creator of the Heavens.
- Sitting outside the house in the early morning and seeing items such as buckets, bunches of hundreds of bananas and bags of sweet potatoes 'walking' by. (Our fence is about ( and a half feet tall, the height of the average burundian woman walking by with a full load on her head!)
- Buying 15ft of sugar cane for 25p...that should keep us going for a while!
- Seeing the look of peoples faces when they realize that reconciliation really could work and just might be the answer for the country...
- The house we stay in being inundated by HUNDREDS of large flying insects during a particularly heavy evening rainstorm... i think i saw a side to amalia i never knew existed...and didn't want to!
- Washing dishes in buckets with the sun on our backs and a breeze on our faces.
- Singing goodnight songs together as a group to Danny, one of the orphaned babies at a place we were staying.
- a whole lot of laughter!
This is just a snapshot, and i gotta go here, but i look forward to being a little more specific, and also sharing pictures sometime in the near future!
You should know that things are well here, the team is safe and well, burundi is still a little uneasy, but things are great and we're walking in the will and power of God, so keep praying for us, and we'll let you know how things progress!
Please pray in particular for me as i try and figure out what it means to lead this outreach not in MY power, but in God's.
Nagasaga from Burundi!
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