2-4-10oddgiftsbeautifultrying

2-4-10
Thursday
15:26

Some things strike me odd, some as gifts, some as incredibly beautiful, some as trying. –Padre, sometimes You give me really annoying and trying times. There is probably a reason for this. Help me to look and pray for the reasons. Help me to learn them. I’m not doing extremely good on my own-
The odd: as I was walking home from town the other day, I ended up meeting the night watchman for a friend’s compound. As we talked, I asked him… (hmm I might be a little ADD, cuz I just got distracted and had fun projecting my beard’s shadow on the wall for the last minute or 2 [there is a heavy rain right now, and the electricity has been out ofr a while {oh, wait, it just turned back on} so I have been writing by flashlight])…(and now, I just had an extended pretend sword fight using my cane… maybe a little ADD)… about his family. He told me how many children he had, then he told me how many wives he had. That struck me odd. He only had 2 wives (I hear 3 is pretty common). I told him that I had 0 wives, and I was going to make a joke about him sharing, and giving me one of his, but I decided against it. He might not have thought it was as funny as I did.
By the way, do yo know what sound makes me feel a little happy? About 50-100 preschoolers chanting “Yetu Timo” (or something like that [“our Timo”]) while surrounding me and holding on to any square inch of arm that they can reach. That’s not bad. I don’t in anyway deserve it, but I am happy to receive it. (owht, no more electricity again) (ah, electricity is back)