things ethiopia has taught me… installment three.
9. It really doesn’t matter how much you’ve already eaten. You are ALWAYS expected to eat more.
Some people say that we were drowning in the ocean
Barely floating until God threw us the rope then
Our free will helped us as we groped
Our faith is the hand that grabbed the rope and God put us back in the boat
Nope! Without apology I deny that analogy
Reality- we were dead at the bottom of the sea
I was a swollen corpse with hope no more
Until Jehovah the LORD dove from the shore to the ocean floor
Yeah, I was a corpse and I smelled like it
I’ll keep it simple, why did God choose me? Because He felt like it!
He brought me out, not an act of my volition
Breathed life into my lungs and didn’t ask for my permission
Do people even take plus ones to weddings anymore?
things ethiopia has taught me… part two.
six: whoever said that roosters only crow at the crack of dawn is teaching a lie straight from the pits of hell. the roosters crow whenever they please.
seven: you don’t know a worship service til you’ve been in an african worship service.
eight: internet access is a joke.
Things Ethiopia has taught me.
One: traffic rules are entirely subjective.
Two: regardless of my skin colour and heritage, they consider me white.
Three: it is possible to eat injera for each meal, every day.
Four: regardless of your state of hunger, you will be asked to eat ALL THE TIME.
Five: coffee is ever flowing around here.
this is the longest i’ve ever gone without regular connection to the internet.. i’m still alive. ethiopia is hot and chaotic. there are no traffic rules (or so it seems). lots and lots of injera. falling in love with this city. lots of loneliness but God’s been working. it’s been pretty cool =)
keep me in your prayers!
tumbling from frankfurt international airport just to say i did.
this should be a read more but I’m on my phone.
I’m spiritually dry. This is a hard season. I just want to know Jesus again. But I am fighting. I will praise His name even when I cannot feel His presence.
All of my life, in every season,
You are still God, I have a reason to sing,
I have a reason to worship.
Troubles of this world.
They will one day mean nothing.
We’ll rest in His arms.
Amen. What a day that will be.
