Soakin' Up Life . . . at a 100 MPH!

Hi! This is Cindy. After much prayer, I really felt God wanted me to share this email from one of our teammates from our Africa mission trip. With permission to use her email and post on my husbands usual blog, I will share with you God has laid on my heart. It reminded and encouraged me to always pray without ceasing in all things and in all circumstances. God is a BIG God who is able and faithful.......even in the little, everyday things we sometimes take for granted. Prayer is so vital and powerful. We all left Tanzania and flew to Dulles. After we arrived in Dulles, many of us began our seperate ways home. Some of us to Virginia, Pensacola, Portland, Huntsville, and Mobile. Our friends email also reminded and encouraged me that the mission is not over when you leave Tanzania. The mission is always there and always going. Even when you leave Tanzania, you are entering the mission field. To God be the glory in ALL things, Cindy *******************************************************

Today is the 4th of July. . .the day we Americans celebrate our independence. It's the day our founding fathers decided, together, that America was to be it's own country. It's also our 234th birthday. And this morning I was wondering if, today, we appreciate the freedom we've enjoyed or the price that's been paid for all these 234 years? I think we enjoy the freedoms - the freedom to make a living doing what we want to do, the freedom of educational opportunities, the freedom to speak freely, the freedom to disagree, the freedom to travel and live wherever we want, the freedom to have as many children as you want, even the freedom to participate in our government and the political process - but I don't think we stop long enough to appreciate these freedoms. We all know about the atrocities committed against mankind just in this century by governments, religion, and people to prevent them from experiencing these freedoms. I also don't think we stop and t