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Tue, 26 Feb 2008

Sunshine, singing, and sleep

So, yes, the absentee blogger is finally writing. I'm so bad at this. I wrote all this last night, but wrote on the GC blog instead of this one. Oops. But anyway...

Like Laura mentioned earlier, we've enjoyed sharing stories with each other as we travel on the bus from place to place, and I thought the following little anecdote was worth sharing. Yesterday walking around Lancaster city, Christa (Graber) and I found ourselves on a couple of streets towards downtown where I probably wouldn't have felt safe alone at night. But with the sun shining, and all around gorgeous weather for February, we had a really refreshing walk. On one of those streets, we passed by an older man, a bit bedraggled, slowly shuffling his feet along on the sidewalk. As we got closer, his face suddenly lit up with a huge grin, and he said "Jesus loves you" in the best grandfatherly voice. We told him "Jesus loves you too," and kept walking, smiling to ourselves a little bit. He definitely offered us a ray or two of sunshine! More about singing: we had a great time at Philadelphia Mennonite High School this afternoon. The highlight for me was watching students' enthusiasm as we sang, especially teaching them Yesu ni Mtakatifu at the end, and really getting into the rhythm together. The concert tonight at Blooming Glen was also good, but I'll let someone else write more about that. After a full day with three concerts, I'm pretty exhausted, ready for a good night's rest, and eager for the chance to sleep at least a little later in the morning. If someone had told me last week that I would think sleeping til 7 am sounded lovely, I might not have believed them.




Posted at 13:47 by Ana Yoder #


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