one can of chickpeas

i walk up to a counter and i get a confused look before i even open my mouth the clerk demands "where are you from?"

"um...canada...why?"

"cause a white south african would NEVER have dreadlocks"





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My heart it totally stirring,Africa is amazing so amazing that i dont often have time to blog but i hope that everyone is still praying for me and for the people i've set them up with.

This week we are having camps with some of our youth and im so excited!
But this week is also full of alot of comings and goings, Dan Johns who has been with hands for a while and who is actually from WKC and with sojourners (so we odviously have some stuff in common) is leaving and his farewell was full and tears and major inspiration...he has deeply touched lives here and i hope God uses me in the same way.
Mary my roomate and good friend for the past two months is also leaving, it will be sad to see her go :(

but we are getting many new people so thats exciting as well.
thats all i really have time for right now but check back in the next few days!!

Fashion Wrinkles

I never know where to start these things.

I wish you could all crawl in side my brain and see and feel the things i am seeing and feeling, i think something that is very important to me is that others see and understand what i am.

if you could crawl into my brian right now you would find that i have a song from the african church i went to this morning stuck there, the church service was absolutely amazing, it was basically a 2 and half hour dance party, the singing was incrediable and filled the whole neighthood let alone the whole room, i couldnt stop smiling if i had wanted to!

if you could crawl into my heart right now you would find that it is still broken, but that it is learning many many new things, one thing being that i am here to become more secure in God's love and to love people, i am learning that stressing out about what i have to offer them in the way of help is not getting me far its just getting me to a knotted frustrated place and i cant get anything accomplished that way. it is being reconfirmed in my heart that realtionship with other people is what is important and what really matters, I am so blessed to know the people that i know....

if you crawled into another part of my heart you would find how i love my art class! how im so excited about how they are doing and what we are going to contuie to do with them, you will find how i am worried about one of the boys whos name is mthabiso who has just been taken away to inetation camp, which is a cultural experiance that can go very wrong.

if you could crawl into my brian right now you would find that i am planning what i am going to be doing this week and i dont even really know, monday will involve alot of small meetings to prepare monthly reports and making of the schedules for the youth program and young mothers and the rest of the week will probably come out of that, i plan on going to visit a few of the youth at where they stay and yeah....This friday i also get to go into Joburg to see one of my favorite bands, the counting crows perform and im pretty darn excited about that.

I think thats all i can really say for right now....
please if anyone still wants people to pray for as a part of the prayer network i have people i still want to partner up, so let me know! reflectwhatyoubelieve@hotmail.com