One year ago today was a beautiful day in Ethiopia. We had the wonderful opportunity to attend a worship service at a nearby church. I will admit it was so hard to get out of bed that morning. We were bone tired from the previous 2 weeks and once I had the ear plugs to block out all the noise: people, cars, music, animals, ... I was able to sleep so well.
But I was so blessed by dragging myself up and joining the group for church service. We attended a church full of people from all over the world. The service we attended was in english and had the most wonderful worship that morning. The songs were familiar, new to us several months earlier, and the message in each was sent straight from God of what I needed to hear that morning. My desire to stay "home" and my anxiety over what we could do about our missing documents, the concern that we would not make our flight home at the end of the week... He knew what I needed to hear and blessed me so greatly!
After the service our guides took us for lunch at a local resturant. Yesterday we had not ventured out for lunch when we had the opportunity because we were so in need of a nap, so this was our first experience in Ethiopia eating out. We caused a big stir entering the resturant, so many people stopping, watching, coming close to stand and stare, asking questions... We had gone to lunch with our group, our guides, as well as a few families who were staying at the guest house from our agency who were adopting from Ethiopia; either on their first or second trip. The food was very different than in Rwanda so it took some time to determine what was on the menu and order, but it was very good.
We also finally got word to one of our poa in Rwanda about the document needs for a few of us and he was working on getting what we needed. We prayed for it to work out, we had done what we could in communicating it.
Overall, it was a great day, just restful, full of God's peace and with little we could do yet for the process we were able to sit back and breathe for a moment.
Sheri
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