Happy year and 3 months, Conner Blair!!! (By the way, I told everyone you said hey and you missed him or her!! Nkosi especially :) I got your back.)
At the grace and generosity of Mason, I now have a pair of white basketball shorts to sport around with my socks, chacos, blue t-shirt and grey jacket instead of the long black prairie skirt here on the farm in the middle of winter. 4 days down in the same outfit, only 3 more to go! Norma can’t go back in to Bulawayo to pick up my bag until Tuesday evening . . . TIA.
Today is my first outdoor quiet time and it is glorious. I find it difficult to stay focused enough to finish writing. I climbed onto the rocks, saw Norma’s horses in the next field over, hopped the fence to love on the horses, climbed back on to the rocks, sat and gazed. I can’t stop gazing. The clear and cloudless blue sky is mysterious and captivating, the boulders are everywhere, the valley consumes my periphery, the dam is straight ahead of me, and the breeze and heat of the sun is so refreshing. The Lord is so alive in this day. “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” – Psalm 118:24
When I came back in from the rocks, Mason, Chris, and 3 neighbors and friends of Chris and Norma were building a solar geyser so the girls’ showers, the guest showers, and Chris and Norma’s personal shower can have hot water without having to start a fire under their water tanks! Whoo! I was so worried about freezing cold showers in winter weather again. I am so thankful. Hip hip hooray!!
We ate lunch and the YL leaders reconvened for one last meeting and now they are preparing to leave and go back to Bulawayo and go to school, go to work, and love on people in the city. I was sooo so glad to be with them and to see Patson and his wife Cindy this morning!
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