This last week has been full of travel and moving about the country for
different meetings and visitations of purposed project sites. Travel here tends
to be a little more taxing due to the terrible road conditions and pot holes
that will swallow your car. Everyone always jokes with me about how I fall
asleep so quickly on our journeys but I just tell them that it’s just my coping
mechanism to the driving here… better to just fall asleep than have a heart
attack! While it has been tiring to be somewhere new almost every other day, I’ve
really enjoyed the time spent with everyone. I love sitting in the car
together, laughing, listening to worship music, and sharing stories of great
faith and the beauty of our God. I love the glimpses I get here of true joy and
the enjoyment of those God has given us. The work here is such a privilege and
I continually find my heart dripping with thankfulness for the family I live
with. Pastor Danny has a real gift of humor and anyone who meets him figures
that one out very quickly. He can get the whole car to erupt in laughter
without a moments notice. I love the way Dovie still laughs at him and never
tires of his jokes, even though I’m sure she’s heard them a thousand times. I
love hearing that real belly laughter from Dovie when her children are being
silly and the light-hearted nature of the families that surround me. It’s such
a gift in a place where it’s so easy to become frustrated and burdened with the
way things are run here. Every time it would seems reasonable to respond in
irritation, I instead hear outbursts of laughter. On Saturday we were heading
back from Northern Uganda and our driver suddenly burst into laughter at the
overkill of speed bumps every five feet… He just turned up the music and
shouted, “All our bodies will dance now!” We laughed as we bounced and danced along
the roads of Africa.
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