The kids at our hotel with the vast African plain behind them.
Before I start, I have to clear something up. One of my last posts was about us being in Nairobi for six months. I realized a few days ago that when I put that post up we had only been in Nairobi five months. I think I was confused because AQP was six months so that meant we had been here for six months. Our true six months comes the middle of this month. I feel like time is moving quickly but it must not being moving as quickly as I thought.
With the record set straight, I can move onto what I am
grateful for. . .
1. The beauty of the
earth. We had the opportunity before
Christmas to visit the Maasi Mara. It
was incredible. It was what I always
thought of when I thought of Africa. I
am in the middle of writing another post about it that I hope to get up this
week so I won’t describe it in detail here.
I am so grateful for the opportunity we had to experience that.
2. Answers to
prayers. Throughout my life I have had
many different types of answers from prayers.
At times, I have received quick unmistakable answers. Other times, I have felt like my prayers must
not be making it to heaven because I did not see any sort of answer. With time I have realized that I received
just as powerful of an answer to the second situation as I did in the
first. The only difference was type of
answer and its timing. In retrospect, I
see that Heavenly Father has always answered my prayers – not always in the way
I desired but in the way that was best. This
morning I knelt down to pray about an issue that has been plaguing me since we
arrived in Nairobi. I have prayed many
times about it but this morning for some reason, I received a quick and
decisive answer to that prayer. I
suppose that the answer had really been there all along – maybe my heart just
needed to be ready to hear it. Either
way, I know that Heavenly Father hears and answers prayers.
3. Old friends. With this move, we have lost contact with
some of our old friends. I couldn’t find
their emails when it came time to send out our Thanksgiving letter and I couldn’t
remember all of them. That has tugged at
my mind since the end of November. The
last few days I have come to realize that it is OK. The lack of constant contact or yearly letters
won’t take away the special place these friends hold in my heart.
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