Suds of Joy

As our van bumped along the dusty roads this morning our voices spoke in unison as we once again said the Armor of God prayer we begin each day with. " Use me to take your peace & your hope into the world today.......put your truth in my heart & mind in a fresh way today".

When we arrived at Kawale, we were once again embraced with love. We often are told that we are not visitors, we are their sisters now. How wonderful to sit in a circle as the beans cooked over the open fire beside us and sing together, "It is well with my soul." This little place with it's red brick walls & tin roof is a place where Jesus fills souls and where peace like a river flows!

As the widows slowly trickled in from their LONG journey's walk, they were now able to be taught how to cut& package the soap they had prepared the day before. We were honored to be part of this "first" and what a delight to watch the faces of the widows as they saw their work come to completion. The joy increased as they plunked a bar of soup into the cold water and the basin became a well of bubbles. The dirty shirt with a few good scrubs became clean!

Throughout the day, as we fed the children, read bible stories, sang songs, taught teachers, spoke about developing their soap making business, it was never unlikely that a women would begin worshipping through song and dance. A circle of women and children would gather and joy would abound. And yes, we were always pulled into this circle, hands always quick to hold ours.

I think the team would agree, that our hearts bubbled over today. It might just be that LOVE was added to that recipe of soap today just to make those bubbles a bit bigger.

judith on behalf of the team