Day 24 and sorry that I've missed a few ...something to do with African internet access and matatu traffic!
The past few days hve been very powerful. If poverty is not the lack of money, but the lack of options then the work that the Furaha Community Centre are doing in the Huruma slum is incrdible. Four leaders and some excellent teachers who had the options to leave the slum - stayed to give orphans that option. This is incarnational Christianity.
This definition of poverty redefines Jesus. He became poor - He gave up His options for the sake of others.
So for the past few days this is the question that has been piercing me - "what options am I not willing to give up in my following of Jesus?"
The past few days have seen me ask multiple searching questions of myself. Questions about what we/I are doing in Kenya? Questions about the white man in a black continent? Questions about global Christianity without the dollar buying power? Questions about how I live?
Socrates once said "the unexamined live is not worth living" - I think this is my intentional follow of Jesus - examining my life and all that I am involved in leading.
And then today - just finished breakfast and I forgave the German lay who stole my omlette!
We head to church in a few minutes to worship in Swahili - 2 hours of understanding perhaps a few words, but joining together with some of the most courageous and worshipful people around.
Karibu.
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