Yesterday was one of those days of refreshment that makes you thankful for the tiredness beforehand just because the rest felt so good.
Departing from our normal church schedule, we decided to join our Christ School students in their weekly fellowship time. This meant that we grabbed some fruit for breakfast before heading out to the 8:30 service.
The far more western school service ( more western than our typical traditional African church) was a real blessing to all of us. Bible readings in English, short messages of encouragement from students about selected passages and some familiar English songs as well as the African songs; all of these were refreshing to us and to Naomi and Quinn.
Also nice was heading home from church by 10:30, the time we are usually leaving for our morning service (and we’re usually not back till 2pm, walking in the hot sun about 1/2 hour each way after a 2 1/2 hour service.)
We always take Sundays as a rest from work and from visitors. This Sunday, because of our earlier church schedule, we felt we were taking more of a rest than usual.
Once home I prepared us a big brunch, cooking being therapeutic for me when I have time to do it. We ate fried eggs, made-from-scratch sausage, hash browns, and a pineapple passion fruit salad. It was DELISH! Oh yea and we drank Bob and Jordan Kee’s care package vanilla biscotti coffee too!! Thanks!
David and I slept a bit, we watched movies with the kids and played word games (so much fun!), by about 4 I was cooking again; bread, beans for burgers, etc. It takes time to make good food from scratch! For dinner we enjoyed cumin black bean burgers on home made whole wheat rolls, mango salso and homemade barbecue sauce and sour cream. Ginger cookies for dessert!!
Getting to cook and wash dishes alone in the kitchen with my husband, sit on the couch watching movies with my kids, relax mid day in my bed. These are all wonderful pleasures that are so hard when people are coming and going in and out of my house all day.
Thank God for restoring us yesterday, and pray that He will continue to show us simple ways to be rejuvenated.