The Best Part

The weather has turned very hot this past month. I take a shower and then find myself sweating just minutes later. All my clothes feel too heavy and when I put a skirt on my slip sticks to my legs…oh the small things that can become big things depending on the day!!!
Over the past eight months I have had malaria three times. I have had worms and amoebas three times each and a bacterial infection in my intestines that knocked me out for days with fever, body aches, headache and other things I really don’t need to go into detail about. :)

This sounds like my complaining blog entry. Oops, didn’t mean to turn it into that, but after living here close to four years my body has been through a lot. Tanzanians take it all in stride. I have learned that no matter what is wrong with you that unless you have a cough then you really are not very sick. A cough is it for them. They will go to a doctor if there is a cough involved.
I haven’t had a cough in a long time so I don’t normally say too much when I am not feeling good since it really isn’t much in their eyes. But I don’t need to say anything to anyone…except the Lord…and to the Lord I tell Him thank you.
No matter what I go through and the things that happen here, whether pleasant or not so pleasant, the grace of God is always enough. I have learned to pray for grace more these past four years than ever before. God is listening. He is answering. I am so thankful.

Whenever one of those days comes along and I look in the mirror and say to myself, “Geez you’ve really aged.” All I have to do is go outside and sit on the porch or the grass (wherever the kids may be playing at the time) and let the kids jump all over me and tickle them till their faces turn red from laughter and I know that everything is alright. I am put back in perspective with my priorities and all those things that I think I want or need are not really so important anymore.
Ok…so I am aging and that can’t be stopped, but the grace of God is unending and these children here are too precious for words…that is the best part!