"Redeemed from the pit." Christians hear that (and think that) phrase quite a bit, and with good reason. God's pulled me from a few pits, I promise. But when I visited Kenya last month, I saw someone on the first day out. I watched a young girl be pulled from refuse and given a refuge. Nine months pregnant. An orphan. She spent her days digging for food in the city dump. Now, she and ...
Kenya
Hate, Hard Questions & The Only Hope We Have
Sitting under the shade of giant acacia trees, I listened to the hearts of hurting people. It was April, 2015, and about a week had passed since terrorists had attacked a university in Garissa, Kenya. People were grieving. They were afraid. Driving down the highway in Nairobi, we could see large, white tents set up for the families of those who had come to the city to ...
Different is not always dangerous.
Last time I went to Kenya my flight home passed through Ethiopia. Well, "passed through" is probably not the right way to put it. I sat in Addis Ababa for almost six hours. I have to be honest, as my trip approached, I was not looking forward to that flight. I'd never flown Ethiopian Airlines before, and I'd never been to Addis, and my friend had recently had a less than pleasant ...
The world is wide.
It's nap time, and I'm sitting here sipping some coffee straight from Kenya and nibbling a bit of dark chocolate and thinking how perfect they taste together on this Mississippi afternoon. As I savor the rich flavor that comes only from Kenya, I think of coffee farms and tea fields, and if I close my eyes, I can almost feel the wind on my face and the warmth of the sun beating ...