safari ride

Today was a long day! We spent about 12 hours on the road driving to a safari. It was amazing. Ive posted pics on facebook for those who would like to see them. The roads are not like our roads. They dont do construction and there arent nice and paved. They are red claylike dirt and there are pot holes everywhere. So, you can imagine what that was like for 12 hours. It really made me appreciate our roads for sure. I get so impatient with our roads where there is construction. As we drove down that rode today it made me think of how frustrated I get when the roads arent fixed. It also made me think of many other things. Like the amount of time I spend focusing on the negative stuff instead of looking at the positive in others. Or how I dont appreciate the little things that I do have. Basketball camp ended yesterday and at the end of the day we decided to play 5 on 5. This meant 5 American girls vs. 5 African girls. So, guess who was one of the Americans that played. Yep me, and Lets just say Im out of shape. Im pretty sure Ive NEVER had a group of 2,000 people watching me play a sport... EVER. It was pretty neat to see them excited as their girls would shoot the ball and score. It was the first week any of them had even seen a basketball so to see them out there trying was pretty neat. I think the most humbling part all week for me was when I asked the missionary children what they enjoyed most about the camp and each of them said "getting to work with the kids in the special school". Im not sure if Ive blogged about the kids there but these are kids with severe disabilities. VERY severe. Its heartbreaking. The therapy is not anything close to the therapy we have. They dont know how to treat any of the children much and they dont have anything medicine to treat them with. These kids have no motor control. There are some that are 9 years old that crawl on the floor. You get the picture... Its very emotional yet very rewarding when you get to spend time with them. But the Taylor kids never backed down. Not once. They never held back. Its very touching to see that from a 6 and a 9 year old. They get it. They understand what it means to just see others the way God sees them. They have been brought up to understand what it means to be compassionate to others and what it means to serve. I wish you could have seen pictures of them working with those kids. It brought tears to my eyes because in that moment God showed me through those children what it really means to love others like Christ loves us. Just one of the many lessons God has taught me this week.