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"Ninety percent of understanding the will of God for your life is not really caring what the will of God is." George Muller

We were ready!

We were showered, and our toilet flushed without assistance; all good signs that our current location of Korogwe is a step in the right direction towards civilization. The plan for our day was to travel up the mountainside to Lutindi, to visit the Mental Hospital (no worries #KrazyinKorogwe was just for laughs) and the German Missionaries I worked with last year in Njombe.

Honestly, while I wanted to see the people, I saw the mountain they lived on, and that bit of a "thrill ride" did not thrill me. But, hey, we're here, we're available AND as mentioned above we were showered and ready.

After breakfast, we're not sure if it was a transference of anxiety (from me to her), or parasites on the plate, but when we returned to collect our bags for the journey, D decided she'd better leave her breakfast behind; coming up now or coming up later it was coming up. We waited to make sure she would be okay before we hit the hard road hard.

Let me first communicate this clearly: it was breathtakingly beautiful. But enjoying breathtaking beauty while riding in what amounts to a bucking bronco on a cliff with sheer thousand-foot drop offs, cause some loss of appreciation. You just hope that when your camera is found at the bottom of the canyon in the wreckage, people will know that the last thing you saw (before Jesus) was indeed breathtaking (albeit the last one).

I keep my cursing under control, and made sure the floorboards were spotless as I stared downward on the ride upward. D, fully recovered, kept my anxiety covered with her exuberant exclamations of, "Look how high up we are!"

Truly, it was fantastic to arrive (intact) and enjoy an afternoon learning about the hospital, the sustainable energy programs they have implemented, as well as the tea factory that employs village women from the area.

Our program tomorrow has been cancelled. Our two day Women's Seminar will now be one day, and the Sunday School Teacher program will be a full day instead of three hours. That is the plan tonight, but...

we're strangers in a strange land; a land with few clocks, plenty of bad roads, and last minute changes. We've abandoned ourselves to the customs, the culture, and the King.

None of this is a surprise to Him, we're taking it one moment at a time AND we are confident, we'll get to where He needs us to go. (I'd prefer it not be at the top of mountain).

"There's an abandonment to God's will, because there's a confidence about whatever the outcome will be, it will only result in God's glory and our highest good." John Maisel

From the mountains to the valleys
Hanging on and trying to keep our food down
Charlynn and D (Trending on Twitter as #KrazyinKorogwe )

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