Delight in life's hardships
Spiritual Reflections
Pat Ozment Jr. IMB Missionary to Ghana
While I was writing this Peggy told me that she had the phones, and I told her that if she'd take two Tylenol PM's before bed she'd be fine by morning.

Friday she said something about the two rugs, and a set of glass cups she bought, and for the life of me, I could not remember her purchasing drugs or handcuffs.

It happens all the time.

I don't wear my hearing aides because the last time I mentioned them, I got a lecture about safe sex.

Not being able to hear can sometimes make life interesting, and leads to spirited conversation. But unlike so much that takes place in our lives, I can't blame my hearing disability on being in Africa.

I'm tempted, what with all the other abnormalities I suffer.

It seems to me that there are an unusually large number of "noseeums" over here. About 5 minutes after you get off the airplane in Africa you begin to feel the little buggers crawling all over your body, and building nest in numerous undisclosed places.

Maybe that explains my hearing loss, they are in my ears.

To add to that problem is the fact that I already had trouble with "floaters," you know the little specks you see floating in the air, that are really floating in the fluid in your eyes.

When you add "noseeums" to "floaters" you get a person who occasionally will throw a fit and begin to swat at things no one else can see.

Then there is the sweat. I have absolutely beaten myself black and blue trying to kill something I felt crawling down my back or across my forehead only to discover that it was just a bead of sweat.

If it sounds like I'm complaining you have it all wrong. I am bragging. In II Corinthians 12, Paul said that to keep him from being proud, God had given him a thorn in the flesh and though he had prayed it be removed, God said, that His grace was sufficient for Paul, and that His power is made perfect in weakness. Paul then said, "I will boast in my weakness and delight in hardships, so that the power of God may rest on me."

Count the hardships joy, keep the faith and I'll see you in church.

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