Zambia Video 2

This is Zambia video 2.  I am enjoying putting together different videos with different music. When I put all the pictures in and look at the people in those pictures, it reminds me why I am doing this, why I was called to Zambia and how very much all of them need our prayer.  Please be in prayer for the widows and orphans of Zambia and those affected and infected with HIV/AIDS.  Song by Switch Foot, Dare you to move.

Summer is almost over....

I have just returned from summer vacation in Door County, WI.  I have to say it was a much needed retreat for mind, body and soul.  It is nice to get away and not think about emails, returning phone calls and how dirty my house is getting.  My only concerns were the whereabouts of my book and where we were getting ice cream that evening.

In the morning I would run from our cottage down into Fish Creek in the dense humidity that is August in the Mid-West.  It was my time to think and pray about many things including Extending Hands.  I have struggled this summer with feeling a little distant from God.  But I have come to expect this after I come back from Africa, as my dependence and walk with Him there is like nothing I experience anywhere else.  There was a point in my run though, where I felt as if God was giving me a gift, a picture of my walk with him.  At the end of my run when I was almost down into town, the bay would open up to my right through the haze with it's still water cradling the shore. God was reminding me that at the end of the day He is there, through the foggy haze of life when things seem unclear and uncertain.  We need to look beyond our circumstances, or in my case beyond the passing pavement beneath my feet stuck in the heaviness of the air around me. God has given us the knowledge that He is out there in front of us, waiting to show us the view, though sometimes slightly hazy, if we would only look up and out to a future unexplained to us but known by Him.  That is security enough for me.

With fall fast approaching and school starting I ponder this next season.  The next season for my marriage, my family, and Extending Hands.  I am excited to see what God has in store for us and for what He is already doing.  I will remember that He is ahead of me and will clear the way when I might not be so sure what is beyond the curve.

Hebrews 12:1,2-Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perserverance the race marked out for us.  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.