Just thinking....

As the sun set each night this last week while I was in Ghana, I had time to really reflect on the past year spent here in West Africa. I'm beginning to realize just how far off I've been in trying to "guess" or try and "estimate" where I'll be in the future. I mean, who could have ever told me three years ago that I'ld be here in West Africa doing full time missions - certainly not me......and so I've allowed myself a new freedom of looking ahead at life. Gazing into the future with an open mind and no end in sight - dependant upon God's daily leading for my life......What a place to be.....

Looking a little closer.....

Soo, these last couple weeks have been filled with observations of all kinds. Throughout many of my travels here in Burkina Faso, I am always amazed at the flood of American t-shirts that seem to saturate the country from boarder to boarder.......but on this last trip it wasn't any American name brand or Nike swoosh that caught my eye. This pic was taken just before leaving a wonderful (and very gracious) family that we stayed with out in the "bush" for a few days. Notice the little girl's nice clean white shirt.......then look a little closer. It's moments like these that open my mind up to a whole "other" world out there. A perspective totally different than my own complete with other world views and sooo much more.........

No bus station here......

On one of our last village trips - we had a little time to burn on the side of the road just waiting for the next bus to come along that was heading our way. Luckily we had the shade of some trees and this great truck load of logs giving us a little shade and something to lean against