Dear Cherished Interested’s, December 14th 15th 2024
I have a flight to rejoin Hilda in Greeley Colorado leaving Kilimanjaro
International Airport here early on December 23rd. I will arrive very late on December 24th
at Colorado Springs airport, a couple hours south of Greeley. More hours than it sounds travelling the
direction, west bound, after many long hours northbound to first changeover in
Doha. Travelling westbound, chasing the
sun through the sky makes the days very long indeed.
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This week a ride scheduled to collect Hilda and get her
safely to her truck failed to arrive for an hour and a half.. She standing outside in the gathering
darkness of her school parking lot.. in the wind and rapidly falling temperatures.. As she was heading to bed, this morning for
me, she was still chilled after nearly 48 hours of time since being forgotten
outside in that wind.
As I go to sleep tonight I learn she is too sick to leave
her apartment.
That and, another too clever for me, Tz businessman full of
false promises from Arusha, has hastened my departure to join her even though
the book has not been printed, nor delivered.
This Monday one of the local Editor/Translators and I will
work out the plan for the printing to be completed by the 15th of
January and that Precious Editor/Translator will manage delivering all the
Tanzania copies. This will leave out
many people I know only on sight, or by first name, but that is the best we can
do.
For those in America who have lovingly prayed for us, Hilda
and I will work something out as soon as money permits to hopefully share
something of those messages for and from Tanzania with you too. Please Pray for this as we do NOT want to
leave your amazing praying hearts out of any of it.
Your prayer does things like this too. Please believe that.. Thank you.
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Closing Africa house will be happening mostly without
me. Stuff doesn’t matter except for what
deaths big or small it may allow others to strive after overcoming. This is still a place of tremendous premature
death. Right alongside still being a
place of tremendous life, including human life.
Two of the most overt miracles went to town with me, at
Hilda’s insistence, one to get shoes that fit her feet so she can have
transportation to serve her people. Then
both to visit a museum and art gallery that I have come to love far more than
anything in the NYC of my early years.
Deserting the loved ones there/here is extremely
painful. Perhaps, with today’s tech, it
won’t be as complete a desertion as it was in the past. We’ll see if there is interest here for
connection in the face of perceived rejection.
The gap is huge. Inconceivably
huge. Even when seen, lived and
encountered.
Perhaps having served here within the slaveries broken
humanity builds for themselves here, will allow us to better serve even within
my hyper-independent family, blindly fearful, self-servingly defiant, family of
all kinds wherever we are.
Long way to go, still..
Your prayer deeply sought for this work too. Thank You.
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Keep our feet to the fire, please. Thank You!
We may live dangerously, but we are alive. Thank you for praying us the courage to live
this way, if dangerously. We don’t see
it that way.
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You who read and pray and suffer
along with us. Please believe what we get
to see. Thank you for praying our
strength and guidance for each moment with each face. Folks
like you are beyond precious.
Really blessed while deeply
under attack.. all of it is
spiritual.. I wish I could teach that to
everyone so they could truly know it. I
didn’t know it for far too long.
Please keep crumpling us up and
throwing us at God. That is where we
need to be. God will sort us out.
One day at a time.
Just like how you each live. Just
one day at a time.
Thank you, each of you.
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What to Pray for:
Our armed forces families, our leadership, our people, whole
world round, all of Gods kids -
All the tough and blessing expressed above –
The love of folks –
Whatever is on your hearts and minds for us –
For our children and grand-children who miss us?..
For Makumira Secondary School looking to share stories and
partner in some way with a foreign school, Great leaders, teachers, students,
programs, strong backs, minds, and hearts –
For our health to stay ahead of whatever is before us –
For each and every one of you –
Each and every one of your prayers, your precious
conversations with God –
Prayers, Your Prayer, Even your groaning prayers makes all
the difference..
Vern W
May life be as Music to your Heart – May Music be as Heart to your Life –
May Heart be as Life to your Music
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