This morning I made my track back to the market area
to purchase more water. Also last Friday
when we bought the balls we also purchased a chess, backgammon and checker
board set that was left out of our bags.
When I walked into the store this morning the woman met me with the
board. I guess the other lady described
me quite well because she knew me. I
told Kathy I was probably described as the white headed overweight American. Hey you have to laugh about it because it is
true, over the past 5 years I have put on a good bit of weight because all I
was doing was sitting either at work or at home studying and not getting much
physical exercise or doing any major physical activities.
I can handle this in many ways, I could take offense
like a lot of people would or I can laugh with them. I choose to laugh. Why? Because
laughter is good medicine, like our momma’s taught us when they would say “Laughter
is the best medicine.” I remember something
that was said in a movie I watched a couple of years ago about the Amish
community where the young girls were shot and killed. The movie told how the Amish people tried to
keep anger and hatred out of their heart because they teach that this destroys
a person and fills them with so much darkness nothing good can live there. Well we can allow that to happen to us or we
can learn to laugh with the world and you know what happens when we do? Others realize you can laugh about it the
jokes and pun all of a sudden subside.
But if we retaliate in anger then the game is on and you will face absolute
torment from others. Or they will just
ignore you like you have the plague or something really bad and
contagious.
St. Peter wrote “Whom
having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory” (1 Peter 1:8 KJV). No I have not seen God nor Christ but I know
they live in me because I have felt them living inside. And because of this I have GREAT JOY and love
to laugh when God defeats my enemies or removes my stumbling blocks and makes
them stepping stones. When I see others sit
there in disbelief or kind of stunned when I tell them what God has done for me
and others I just can’t help but get filled with laughter because I have the
Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy, down in my heart to stay.
Today we had another
wonderful visit with “H”. We played
dominoes again today with him and every time he would win, that little feller
would just laugh that infectious laugh of his.
And he has one of those laughs that is from way down deep and you just
can’t help but laugh with him. After
that we continued working with him on currency and again the teacher at the
counter helped us. We gave him coins
today along with a couple of 1’s and she helped him understand what he needed
to give her to purchase his snack. Her
help and guidance has been so welcomed by us and we are truly blessed by all of
the people God has placed in our paths. And
I do mean everywhere, and it started when we began our journey, God putting
people in our paths that helped us at the airport with security telling us what
we needed to do. To God seating us with a young woman whose husband is a
professor in a seminary located here telling us some of the wonderful food
names and we are planning on meeting with them again when we head back north
week after next. Then the missionaries
we met a couple of weeks ago at “H” facility.
We are hoping to spend time with them next weekend. We are looking forward to attending service
with them. Kathy told me she may not
understand a single word but where two or three are gathered together in His
name, He will be in the midst of them.
Amazing Grace is still Amazing in any language.
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