Needless to say, or maybe I do need to say since I haven’t really said too much about it (except a little here), the past week or so has been stressful.  Not that simply living in a foreign country/culture isn’t stress enough but what with getting the kids into secondary school, shopping for them all, wondering if funds would cover it (thank you to those who helped…shopping and fees are covered!) it made for long days.  Not to mention the bumpy, dusty roads getting the kids to school!  It’s one of those things though where I knew it would come to an end eventually and that helped, knowing it wasn’t a continual thing.  We still have 2 more girls to get into school  and then all our new secondary students will be in school….yeah God!

I had mentioned in another blog post that I was looking forward to the end of the busyness so things could settle down.  A friend actually laughed (ok, she put lol in her email!) and thought that was a funny way to end.  I never really thought about it until she mentioned it….my sense of normality has certainly changed and the “stress” of not knowing if electricity will stay on, or when it will turn off, whether or not water will flow or even just plans for the day are really not stressers any longer.  I’m not saying I jump up and down for joy when the electricity goes off, I only do that when it comes back on!  We simply turn on the flash light and wait.

God continues to teach me more and more how to rely on Him, making Him my confidant, allowing His Spirit to guide and in the same manner chipping away those things which get in the way of His purpose for me, allowing our relationship to be even stronger.  As the saying goes, I’m a work in process!

Seems I have much to say but nothing I really want to try and express….right now.  Frustrations abound.  Nothing really out of the ordinary but just things that make me scratch my head and think “what is going on here?”  Simple requests turn into ordeals (is there enough food to last three days?  Yup.  But then getting a call the next night – there’s no food)  Things like that tend to frustrate me.

The culture, food (or lack thereof), friendships (or lack thereof) seem to be frustrating me a lot lately.  It seems much of this stemmed from the Christmas celebration we had at C4KK.  It was wonderful seeing the kids have a good time and I think satan hated that.  So when he doesn’t like something it normally seems more tests are brought about from it.

So I just take one day at a time.  Attempt to give it to God.  Allow the Spirit to guide me.  Wait for His peace.  Walk towards Him.  Pray I pass the test, today and tomorrow.