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!