Jeanna will be joining me (Jolene) to keep our blog going more consistently. Here is her first writing as we continue down the trail together of Our Zambia Journey......
I stir the
pot of beans and reflect over the last several years of my life. So much has
happened, so many new, exciting and challenging things. Getting to see my fist
lion (up close and in person) and seeing Victoria Falls in all its wondrous
glory stand out as some of the more amazing experiences. But there are the
simple miracles that happen every day and no one even seems to notice.
Like student
interview time last year - on paper we wrote down every possible blanket, every
bed, and every bedsheet we had available. And then there was the count of
everyone who had come in. We had more coming than we even had space for, but
somehow we had sheets and beds for everyone with just a few left over. Kind of
like the five loaves and two fish, huh?!
Or what about the day that we
prepared a normal sized dinner for us and had an extra seven children from our
village need to join us, and once again there was plenty left over - enough for
another meal!
God
continues to show up all around us whether it is through the serene Zambian people's
smiling faces or the gecko on my ceiling, or by working amazing miracles just
because He can! Habakkuk 1:5 says, "Look around at the nations; and be
amazed! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn't
believe even if someone told you about it." Yes - the things God does
daily aren't always easy to understand. God doesn't always rain fire from
heaven or speak with a mighty trumpet blast. But God is always with us, working
through us, in us, to accomplish his will on the earth.
So I put
out the fire under the bean pot and put the lid on. I feel the wind blow
through the kitchen, I hear tropical birds chattering, little kids laughing,
and an ant races down the wall. Yes, as we say in Zambia - God is good, all the
time, and that's his nature. Wow!
