Gilbert.
As you can see I've largely given up replying to individual e-mail. Time is money (in the world of cybercafes anyway)I'm having trouble loading my blog page, I can read it but can't post anything new so I'll ask you to do the honours for me using the genius of copy and paste please.
I met Gilbert under a tree. I'm hoping after last weeks blog some of you went away and read Acts 6 (and then realised I meant 16 and so read that as well). In it you find a story about how Paul met Lydia which is all very co-incidental and convenient for Paul-long story short he happened to be at the river one day and this woman was there and she turned out to be pretty handy and sorted Paul out for a few weeks.
Having read that, this is all going to be a little deja-vuey (yes Tom I'm aware that that is appalling french-fantastic Franclaise though don't you think?). Turns out the same church I happened to be at on Sunday are holding meetings each day this week to with a Pastor from Zambia. So I went to the lunchtime meeting and afterwards thought it would be nice to get some lunch (cheesy bread and a gingerbread man) and take it with me to sit under a tree in the park. Hey, I could even get my Bible out. So I did that and a few minutes later a woman came and sat under the same tree. Let's call her Flora (that was her name afterall). She saw me reading my Bible and we got talking as you do. Then a guy sat under the next tree (sitting under trees is something of a national passtime it would seem) asked if he could borrow my bible since he only had a New Testament with him and wanted to look up something on the Old Testament (I only just yesterday made the link between testament, testify and testimony- as a linguist I hang my head in shame).Flora goes off to play football and I go off to check up on my Bible where I get talking to Gilbert, a travelling evangelist. He was also at the lunchtime meeting. Weird.
Turns out neither of us were meant to be there-I had afterall planned to be travelling to Nairobi on Monday and he was meant to be staying in a place called Eldoret for the next two weeks but decided to come to Kisumu to check out the Zambian guy. Very Weird.
We spent that whole afternoon talking and went to the evening meeting.Tuesday we met up and went to his home village which is 20 minutes (in a very fast matatu) from the city centre. Visited lots of houses and met people which was really cool. Wednesday went back to the village this time to the prayer mountain. It's kind of like a big (and I mean big) pile of big (like house sized) rocks all piled on top of each other forming this network of caves and passsages-looks like the set for an Indiana Jones movie or something. Very cool, you get to the top and there's an amazing view of the lake-you can see accross to Uganda.
Got back home in the evening to find a letter waiting for me-Samuel got the post off AJ and mailed it to me in Kisumu. Thankyou.
I like having my blog hijacked, it gives me an idea of everything that's going on (I say again, Tom's going to Isreal?). It's also good to see people who don't know each other forming weird virtual friendships. Hoorah.
So everythings going well in a strangely co-incidental way. Bob is right-it's much easier to spot God's plan unfolding in other peoples lives. And way more comfortable to live vicariously through their risks! Everything 'just happens' to have worked out this way because I 'just happened' to go to that church and 'just happened' to sit under that tree.Don't you love when things 'just happen'.
Tomorrow night is Kesha and they say it's going to a prophetic night, it's been two weeks so I'm about due another prophecy.
That's all I have to say for now. Cheers Sharon.
posted by Le Shaz @ 12:47 AM
7 Comments:
Hi Wendy - lovely to hear from you - be careful going off with people you have only just met -I know on face value, it may seem OK, but be aware that not everybody is what they seem - what a suspicious world we live in now! Right, that's the Mother thing out of the way.
Sounds incredible how your adventure is unfolding - absolutely amazing. Must cut short, should be working.
Love You very much.
Mum
PS. Thanks, God, for looking after Wendy so well.
Wendy
Hoorah sorry you are having blog problems but glad you managed to cut and paste because it is wonderful to hear from you and catch up with your adventures. Glad Samuel forwarded to you should have been 2 a package and a postcard. Good job i didn't mention Samuel being scared of the crocodiles.
Humdrum here but at least it is Friday.
If I liked Gingerbread men I would be glad to know you can get them there!
Off to eat my lunch now. Lots of love AJ x x x x x
On the contrary, Wendoline, I was in awe at your command of the French language there... well, OK, that's somewhat of an overstatement but throwing it in their made you seem un peu plus "sexy", n'est-ce pas?
Where you are right now seems like utter bliss, perhaps because I'm a bit disillusioned with uni just at the moment... but anyway, term just finished and I'm off to visit a friend who doesn't know I'm coming tomorrow, all the way on the other side of the Atlantic...
As to "weird virtual friendships"... well, what can I say? Magnifique, hein?
Keep smiling, keep dancing and keep up with the gingerbread men!!!
This sounds so idyllic - reading under a tree in the park. Sounds like the Tuilieries Garden in Paris, one of my favourite places (just to keep the French theme going). I am glad you have met with other Christians, and have lots of good spiritual input from the meetings you are attending. The prayer mountain sounds good - no doubt one will turn up in our next labrynth (grin). Dave is probably off seeking the big rocks as we speak (sorry Dave. Enjoy the EP stuff next week. Did you in fact see the eclipse by the way?
I will keep praying and will keep hijacking your blog, since you dont mind. I have lots of virtual friends from tracing my family tree, so a few more is just fine.
and Yes, Tom Bart is going to Haifa, doing the same sort of stuff that Lynne did in St Petersburg, with the same organisation that she went with.
Love, hugs and prayers
Liz P
it's lucky you just happened to sit under that tree. That's all I can say.
oh, well you've got trees in your garden! Some of us don't have trees. Some of us don't have gardens. Some of us have never even SEEN a tree, let alone sit under one and recite passages from a biblical tome.
Naturally, I have a tree. No bible though. (no shelf space)
I dont have a tree in my garden. But I have loads of bibles in a vareity of languages - in fact we might even have two different versions of the Bible in Russian. I am currently reading mine in Latin. But I am weird, we already established that.
Tallking to stranges is GOOD for adults, I do it all the time. How are you going to meet new people if you dont talk to strangers. I have even met up with people I met on the internet - my kids went bananas at the idea tho - but I was sensible.
Wendy I thought of you in M&S today, in fact if I had an address and thought it would have posted, I would have bought you a present - they had a sweet looking chocolate cow called Myrtle Moo, and she had a big pink nose and she looked just like Daisy before you painted her front nose bit brown. She was very cute. But hollow chocolate cows are not designed for international air travel really, and it wasnt Cadbury chocolate.
Hope the EP thingy is going great
Liz P
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