Day 94
Today, I have a guest blogger – my wonderful mother, who tells in a stream-of-consciousness style the story of my family’s trek back from a visit in northern Kenya to their home in Kijabe. It happened last year. It’s all true. I think it’s quite hilarious.
Honest – this is what happened…. this morning when we were still in Ngurunit we got a text message from the airline people about our flight back to Kijabe- “it’s off because of the weather”… so we put our luggage back into our room … we wrote back to Kijabe to cancel a bunch of plans til we could fly out on the next flight on Friday … the airlines called right after we sent the email and said, “it’s back on again” … we grabbed a quick lunch, heard the plane approaching – went down to the airstrip– the plane had just arrived and was stuck in the mud (in the middle of the desert)… (it had rained for the week)… we had a wonderful flight- only 1 hour long… arrived to a huge crowd at the airport because earlier in the week there was a plane crash up north involving 6 Parliament members and their bodies were arriving at the Nairobi airport just as we arrived… and then we got left by the airline rep with all of our luggage.. in the middle of this crowd of well dressed politicians with their Mercedes- while we just came straggling in from a safari all dirty (from the sand blasting off the plane turning around after we dug him out of the runway)…and then a marching band arrived in uniform… and we were trying to get to our car at the other end of the airport.. carrying 9 pieces of assorted luggage and as we waited with our luggage we were asked by two different police and then a soldier to move because the President’s motorcade was coming… (I’m not making this up)… and I kept explaining why we couldn’t carry all of our luggage by hand… blah blah blah.. and finally Phil [editor’s note: that’s my dad] came with the car, but it was at the same moment as the Vice President’s motorcade arrived, from the other direction so he had to stop and by then a bunch of men had overheard our story and were laughing with usas I kept saying- we’re just trying to get home… and we didn’t actually get into trouble, which could have happened very easily in that type of situation.. and I couldn’t even take pictures of these moments as that is also highly illegal but … we’re home. WHAT A DAY!!
Onward.
May the mind of Christ, my Savior,
Live in me from day to day,
By His love and power controlling
All I do and say.
May the Word of God dwell richly
In my heart from hour to hour,
So that all may see I triumph
Only through His power.
May the peace of God my Father
Rule my life in everything,
That I may be calm to comfort
Sick and sorrowing.
May the love of Jesus fill me
As the waters fill the sea;
Him exalting, self abasing,
This is victory.
May I run the race before me,
Strong and brave to face the foe,
Looking only unto Jesus
As I onward go.
May His beauty rest upon me,
As I seek the lost to win,
And may they forget the channel,
Seeing only Him.
Made for Eternity 