By Juli McGowan Boit | Published: August 18, 2015
Sitting on the veranda of our guesthouse at dusk, watching a soaking rain pass by while bundled up in a hoodie sipping on some hot chai drives home the fact that, “we are not in Kansas anymore, Toto,” and we are actually a world away from Azusa. We heard about the fires and extreme heat in Azusa today – I wish we could package up the rain and coolness here and send it home. You are in our thoughts and prayers.
We have been challenged by our hosts to finish well and not go home before we leave. I am certain this team will stay present to the end.
We began our final week here at Living Room with gusto. Today began with devotions with the staff and guests, followed by home health, inpatient and outpatient visits. Then, ended with a training session on transfers before walking home prior to the rain beginning.
As I look back over the past weeks, Isaiah 50:4 keeps coming to mind: “The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen as one being taught.” I am proud to say our team has truly been one with instructed tongues that have given words, and treatments, that have sustained the weary – and brought healing. They are waking up morning by morning as ones being taught. Learning about the true beauty of Kenya (ask about it when we get home), cow dipping, what a “day hike” in Kenya looks/feels like, and what worship services entail here among other things. We are learning from the experienced staff and the patients we serve. Each of us are picking up the language in our own ways and learning from each other as we treat diagnoses we’ve only read about. We are getting experience teaching as we learn what is needed. I am certain the experience here will have a lasting impact on us each…if only we could stay a few more weeks…
Well, the storm has passed and my cup of chai is gone so I’d best be off.
Peace to you until you hear from us again,
Dr. Eccles
for Team Kenya 2015
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