silent worship

Jeff and I recommend visiting the following link for a worship experience words cannot express...

www.kkmime.org

I'm Thankful for Peace...keepers.

While we all await Jeff's post about what he is thankful for I thought I should write out my story about peacekeeping for those of you that haven't heard it yet...

Robert from Kampala, Uganda came to visit several months ago. He works with college students in Kampala as a lay minister and is probably about fifty. He really wanted to visit some MAP activities with me so I took him to class one day. I spent probably an hour with him before we went. I began to ask multiple questions and became very confused quickly.

Robert told me that he used to work with natural resource management and had now began his own private endeavor of peacekeeping. Do you travel? Who funds you? What does your daily job look like? I literally asked questions for an hour and he simply kept insisting it was his own private endeavor, he did travel, but that he funded himself and wore a "special" suit for visits. I have loved all of our friends from Uganda, but was honestly starting to get the strangest impression of him.

At lunch he was talking to another MAP student and I said "Robert, help me understand again...Do you keep peace in your own nation or between Uganda and the surrounding nations like Sudan and Rwanda? Why do you work by yourself again? He stared at me blankly and my friend Shibu said "Sarah, Robert is a bee keeper." Bees? I said. "Bees, not peace" Robert said. "Oh" I said.

Just another typical day in my life. :)

cooking lessons

Tonight I took three African American acquaintences of mine to the Alpha dinner party. I had the funniest exchange with one of them. The following is the conversation...

Sarah-Do you cook?

Ivy-I love to cook.

Sarah-Cool...what sorts of things do you make?

Ivy-I love turkey neck and noodles...and I loooove chitlins.

Sarah-Interesting. I don't think I have had the experience of eating either of those things before.

Ivy-Do you want me to tell you why? (leans in and whispers) "because black people eat different food than white people. White people don't even know you can eat the neck and the intestines and that it's good."

Sarah-I think I'll have to try that sometime.

I love my cultural experiences. Sometime I'll tell you all a really good story about a Peacekeeper I met few months ago.

on stink.

Allow me to do you a favor. If you're unsure of what this is, chances are you've got some stank-ass breath. The 'tongue scraper' is a staple of my hygiene utility belt. You'll be shocked at the amount of crap this baby will squeegee off your tongue every morning. Go on, treat yourself to this $1.99 gadget...and open mouth kiss w/ confidence.

**Editor's note - After some thought and discussion, I've realized that some of you think you "get all that" w/ your toothbrush. I'm sorry you're a liar.