Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 27, 2006
last night during our weekly prayer group, God came. this is nothing new to the group. the Spirit is almost always tangible during those prayer times. but we read about the different ways in which God spoke to humans throughout history – a whisper, a storm, a loud voice. i am beginning to understand that [...]
Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 26, 2006
friday nigth scott and i ate dinner with a friend of mine from high school and her husband and mom. saturday i went to the gym on my campus, which happens to have one of the better climbing walls in the city (if only we lived in nashville, but anyway). a friend and i climbed [...]
Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 23, 2006
as we sat at a little greek place last night, and our group began its discussion of how everyone’s day was, i listened. and what i heard beneath the words was that my friends are fragile. even something i say in jest can be taken as an ugly comment. in a society where we poke [...]
Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 21, 2006
we heard the testimony of Shafkat while we were in nairobi. he told us how he had been raised in a faith that believed in karma and reincarnation. if a family in this faith has a handicapped child, they believe the best thing for that child is to die and be reincarnated into something better. [...]
Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 20, 2006
this is a question i have been asking since my junior year at asbury – the difference in our lives of being vs. doing. some will argue that there is some overlap, i will agree to a point. a lot of what we do stems out of who we are. but there are times we [...]
Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 20, 2006
the following quote sums up what we should be doing daily (maybe not in Africa for all of us, but, among the less even roads)
“let us resolve to take Jesus Christ out of the religious setting in which we have imprisioned Him and walk with Him along the dusty roads of Africa where He feels [...]
Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 19, 2006
as i was sitting at lunch with abby and some students at kenyan highland bible college, they asked me if i was in school. i explained that i was in graduate school in birmingham. they asked if i was involved in my church, and i said yes, there are several areas that i help out [...]
Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 18, 2006
this morning during our sermon, our pastor said (paraphrase) that pursuing the american dream will not lead to happiness – it is only obedience to God that will bring you true joy. this made me think of two things. the first, the song lyrics below. if you have never heard of derek webb, check him [...]
Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 16, 2006
here are a few of the pics – i will post more on our website (larimore web page) later this weekend.
Posted by: ilovekenya on: June 15, 2006
i shared about the massai girls and the atrocity of female circumcision that is taking place.
the natural question – if they do that to the girls, what happens to the boys?
as custom goes for the boys, circumcision is a right of passage to manhood. it is part of the transformation from being a boy to [...]
