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Spiritual Reflections
If your plans depend on electricity, you can depend on no electricity. When you have electricity, it is 220 volt, 50 cycle, not 110 volts, 60 cycle. I have forgotten 3 times, snap crackle pop! The language is different. I am beginning to doubt I'll ever learn it. The difficulty is magnified by my hearing disability. I have trouble even when they speak English, which is also different. Did I say, "it is hot." It is sweltering, hot, miserably hot, constantly, and consistently hot. It is hot when you try to go to sleep, and it is hot when you wake up. The traffic is horrendous. The taxi cabs outnumber private vehicles 5 to 1, and the motor bikes and motorcycles outnumber the cabs 3 to 1. The bicycles out number all the rest 2 to 1. The police are no where to be found. They are unarmed, unmounted (they have no cars), and unconcerned, unless you park illegally. Is my halo slipping, have I fallen off my pedestal. There is just one reason I'm not headed home. It is not the fabulous salary (ha-ha). It's not mangos (though I love them). Its not the year round homegrown tomatoes. It is not that the people here treat us with great kindness, and respect. It's not even that our arrival answered the prayers of many, or that our leaving would disappoint them. No, it is God. He led us here, put it in our heart, burdened us, made it possible. Last week, in our Bible study, we found these words, "My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials." James 1:2. When
the going gets tough, count it all joy. I'll see you in Church.
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