A Broken Foot

Before we left for the US, Kimberly and Kamau were gone to Kenya for 7 weeks.  As the time for their return drew close, I thought, "How wonderful that there have been no broken bones while they are gone."  Kamau has been the one to take the children into Lusaka to the hospital when there have been broken bones. 

On the Tuesday before they were returning on Thursday, we were having our teacher meeting with the mothers and aunties.  We heard a child screaming and 2 of the teachers went to attend to the child.  It turned out to be Mary B.  There was no blood, no scrapes, no swelling.  But you couldn't touch her leg without her crying out.  So Benedict had the honor of taking Mary and Auntie Doreen into Lusaka.  It turned out she had broken her foot or heel.  I'm told that she is doing fine, but please be praying for her.

God's beauty

We are back in the states for 2 months but I will still be posting to the "news."  It has been so awesome to see some of the trees still covered with the gorgeous fall colors here.  I'm struck once again by the creativity of God and the variety and beauty of his creation.  In Zambia there are no "fall" leaf colors.  But there are the jacarunda trees that are covered with light purple flowers.  When these trees are in a row on a street in Lusaka, you drive down under a canopy of purple.  There are the flamboyant trees that are covered with bright red flowers.  When the petals drop there is a carpet of red under the tree. 

In the same way, as the leaves fall here you can see carpets of red and yellow underneath the trees.  I'm sure that when we arrived the colors were "past their prime."  However, it was like the most beautiful trees waited until we were back.  Wherever I would drive near our home in MD I would find myself praising God as I saw this expression of the magnificence of His creation.

Now we are in MN to visit my parents and family here.  Isha is getting to see snow for the first time, and we are all bundling up for the cold.  It may be the coldest Thanksgiving in 21 years here.  I could do without that.  But even the varied temperatures around our world speak of God's creativity.