Written September 12th, 2012
Some days I climb out of my tent and look around,
and I am completely floored by the beauty around me.
We are living in the middle of a valley, with strong mountains all around.
There are often cattle or donkeys grazing right outside my door (one is stomping precariously close as I write this in my bright orange sauna of a tent…), and there is at least
one thunder storm every day in whihc I constantly marvel at how my tent is still standing.
We walk an average of 13km a day, through corn fields, prickle bushes and up into the mountains to talk to the Maasai people. To hear their stories and to encourage and pray for them.
Every second night we dance for hours with the locals and laugh together as we sing songs and tell stories of God’s goodness.
These people.
This place.
They are so full of beauty my heart can barely stand it most days.
My heart just sings when I am in Africa.
Oh how I adore it.
And I’ve been thinking lately about the fact that God could have chose anyone else in the world to be here in the bush of Africa right now.
He could have chose anyone else to love these people, to minister to them.
But He chose me.
He anointed me.
“By God’s grace and mighty power, I have been given the priviledge of serving Him by spreading this Good News. Though I am the least deserving of all God’s people, He graciously gave me the priviledge of telling the Gentiles about the endless treasures available to them in Christ.”
Ephesians 3:7-8.
This verse could not be more true in my life right now.
I have been given the privilege …
I have been given the privilege to lead an amazing group of women.
I have been given the privilege to be in Kenya, telling Maasai people about a God who is so incredibly good.
I have been given the privilege to live the most amazing, crazy, difficult, beautiful life that is so full of joy and so full of Him.
I wouldn’t have it any other way…
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