Kiswahili

Kevin found this site for us to learn Kiswahili... but after browsing through it I wonder if my mouth will ever be able to get the sounds right! Kevin wants to learn a few key phrases for his travels this Christmas (He and Jodi are off to Tanzania). I won't be studying Swahili when I go, I will be learning the tribal language, but languages fascinate me so I thought Kev and I could practice together!

Just listen to this phrase!!! (click on the 'Kiswahili', the title)

It means "Here is rice, fish, potatoes, and salad. I'll bring you cake later."

I just finished a great book, "Through the Gates of Splendor" by Elisabeth Elliot. For those of you who don't know the story it is basically 5 young men who cared enough, were committed enough and trusted enough to give up their lives for the sake of the gospel in Ecuador. I first heard the Reader's Digest account of this story while I was in Capernwray and since then it has been a huge inspiration for me. Elisabeth is one of my favorite authors (just after C.S Lewis) her wisdom, her life experience, her faith and her chalenging words have been such a help to me lately.

Here are a few quotes from the last few pages of the book (this is one book that I DIDN'T read the last pages first... but that is because I already knew how the story ended!)

"God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what His up to."

"God is the God of history, and He is at work continuously, mysteriously, accomplishing His eternal purposes in us, through us, for us, and in spite of us."

"It is not the level of our spirituality that we can depend on. It is God and nothing less than God, for the work is God's and the call is God's and everything is summoned by Him and to His purposes, the whole scene, the whole mess the whole package - our bravery, our weakness.

Now I have to go and find another book to start!