Post Kenya learning

 A few things I wrote in my journal about what I 

experienced and took with me a few weeks after coming back to reality…..

 THE THINGS I LOVED & LEARNED OF KENYA:

last sunrise as we left Lokichar

All the places we drove to and worked in

Overlooking the Rift Valley

~SMILES ...they have the brightest and biggest REAL smiles ALWAYS that I have felt deep down to my heart SO, smile more, smile often & be contagious!!~PRIDE…I have never seen and felt pride radiating off people the way I felt it inKenya. These people have all that they know and all that they need (despite needing so many basic life things) They keep their heads held up high, straightest postures I’ve ever seen and the nicest clothes they own they wear the same ones every day with pride dirt and holes in them. The suits, skirts, heals, dresses, uniforms may be older that they are…but they dress up everyday and everywhere they go with their heads held high and the brightest smiles SO, be prideful everyday and hold your head up high regardless of what you may lack in life.

~PEACE…Judith the founds of the orphanage we worked at talked about the corruption of their government leader being a member of the Pokot tribe. He gives no money to the people unless you are Pokot.  No jobs, no assistance, no water help…he keeps it all for his tribal people. She explained that Kenyans could try to “impeach” him or begin fighting/protesting..but she explained that they would rather keep peace than ask for their money and start fighting. They would rather have peace. SO, make peace of situations, it gets you farther than fighting

~FAITH…I really believe that without their faith, religion, trust in whatever ‘powers of above’ they believe in..they would never survive the life they live out there.  I mean these people have bare minimum if even that, some have no water, rarely food, walk miles to get a gallon of dirty water, go without eating, living conditions you couldn’t even imagine would be survivable….and yet they believe in their faith, they entrust in whatever it is above they believe in. They gather for the most beautiful church experience I have ever had the opportunity to experience. They walk for miles to come for a 2 hour service every Sunday filled with love, dancing, singing & prayer.  I truly deep down in my heart feel that if they did not have their faith & beliefs they would never survive.  And they people don’t pray for unnecceary things, they pray for their meals and they sincerely mean it and are grateful for a getting a meal that day. Think about what you pray for, most of it is within our own ability to obtain for ourselves…pray for the tools to help you get there and pray for others.  These people work for everything they have and they work for everything they do and accomplish in life, their faith is what gets them there SO, you have to have faith!