She adds color carefully, layer by layer, the image deepening with each new dye. In the middle of the method, only vague images appear, hints of what's to come. My eyes can't make it out, but the artist sees it clearly in her own mind's eye. My life is a lot like that. From the inside, the moment by moment middle of my routine, I can't always see the big picture. Just glimpses here and ...
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Well, that was an adventure….
I'm sitting in Nairobi, hoping the fatigue I feel will overcome the adrenaline and allow me to fall asleep tonight. Not sure it can though because from the moment I realized my flight from Houston was delayed, adrenaline stepped in, and I've been running on it ever since. And, I do mean running. In fact, in all my travels, and there have been a few, I ran to more gates in the past 24 hours ...
FMF: Mighty
I saw the word "mighty," and my mind flashed more than ten years and many thousands miles back to a small plane, suspended in air over Lake Victoria in a lightening storm. Yes. A big one. Thunder is especially loud when it is all around you. And lightening flashes particularly bright right beside you. And, the lake below? Well, I didn't look down. Deep breaths. That's what I kept ...
Trusting the God who goes AND stays
The freezer is stocked. Casseroles and quick meals enough to make pizza more of an entertaining outing than a necessity. The laundry is on its way...to fill their closets and my suitcase. School assignments are typed up and ready to be completed. My dining room table is filled with things for women and for orphans and for a long trek from here to there. I just have to pack it ...