Reflections

After the birthday celebration on the last night, we went around and heard from everyone about what they saw, experienced, some short reflection on being in the field. Here are some:

⁃ At our orientation we were told that being here would make us younger. But after 3 weeks in the field our bodies tell us differently. But our spirits, yes, our spirits have been rejuvenated!

⁃ every village was a new honor, to be there on the day their well was being installed. 

⁃ amazement at the continuity of time and effort of the MMM workers and volunteers

⁃ Leaving the well and hearing the joy behind us of the village and the clean water

⁃ Headman told us that just ‘last week we lost a child to an open well, now we won’t have that worry’

⁃ The mountains have been flattened with smiles, the valleys filled with gratitude 

⁃ The village prayers that are so powerful in the blessings of volunteers coming so far, workers coming to a place they have no ties

⁃ Messages on my phone from a village where we installed, the disbelief that we came and they DO have clean water

⁃ 2 crippled brothers who left their wheelchairs to join in the dedication

⁃ ‘The only water I’ll boil now will be water for tea!’

⁃ Continued cries on my phone for more clean water, more wells

⁃ I saw the old water hole, one I wouldn’t have stepped into in waders. 

⁃ Overnight delivery of a new radiator for a truck in TZ where overnight delivery isn’t a possibility. 

⁃ Only together can we be who God created us to be. And when you pray, move your feet.