Jambo, folks!
Today is our day off, so we came in to Kisumu to do a little grocery shopping and internet. So, I found it fitting to write a blog. Until last night, I did not have anything substantial to write about but that quickly changed.
Yesterday was a very long day filled with matatu rides, lots of walking, and meetings. At the end of the day, I was done. I started to get off my "high" from being in Kenya, as it started to set it that this was really our lives for the summer. I really just wanted to rest but eventually found myself in Mandy's room (like always). I was feeling so low and tired--thinking a lot about Kenya, the poverty, Umoja, our team here, and my family. Yesterday was also my best friend's birthday and I was sad not to be in South Carolina for that celebration. As I was laying there, Mandy put on some music. It had to have been God because it was the PERFECT song, one that I and the Duke Divinity Gospel Choir sang this past year. Here is the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc4Y7iZwoe8
This song just filled my heart with such joy and peace, I couldn't explain it. The song not only reminded me of how amazingly talented and wonderfully DDS friends are, but the song really grasps what I am trying to accomplish by being here (and in my life).
All I want to do is make God smile. I desire God to be pleased with me and my actions--knowing that I am living my life for the Lord. Everything I do, I want to do in the name of the Lord. And, that better is one day in God's house than thousands else where. It's amazing how many times per day we pray here, so I always feel that we are in God's house. It reminds me that God is working in Kenya and through Umoja and the Duke interns (and Kalamazoo, too!).
I really connect with music and I really feel God speak to me through music. In times of doubt and sorrow, I can be rejuvenated through music. So, I really feel as if God used Mandy to play that song in order to convey to me that God is with me through this experience.
How does God speak to or work through you?
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