a health update & bug story!!!

Quick update & then to my story!
“What is wrong me
Why do I not believe
In Your ever presence
Watching over me

Lord why I am hiding
You’re everything I need
Now I sit & ask
Father, help me to believe.”

This was a prayer/poem/song I wrote & prayed on Tuesday night. I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t being healed, and I believe it was a lack of faith. This was my acknowledgement of that lack of faith, and out of it came Wednesday. He helped me believe. Thank you for your prayers. God is so faithful, amen? He is healing me. Each day my body improves & I am eating normally now & enjoying the chai once again.

Not only is my body improving but my spirit. He is refreshing me ya’ll! I wish I could’ve bottled up yesterday (Wednesday) & had you all experience the amount of joy that was going on in my heart. It was unbelievable! Today is good too, and I am eternally grateful for a good & loving God to refresh, restore, & renew a broken girl- from sickness not only in the body but in the spirit. I’ll never be able to fully grasp the work the Lord has done & is doing, but I give Him the glory!

Last weekend was fabulous, and I have no doubt this weekend will be nothing short of spectacular! I’m going on my first Kenyan shopping trip & taking a Kenyan friend to help me bargain. This way I won’t get ripped off for being white! Many are beginning to believe I’m becoming more & more Kenyan, which is an encouragement as I interact with everyone here.

Tonight Tanari is doing CPR for the University students. If you don’t know what CPR is, you should b/c you’ve all look at tanari.org! RIGHT?! If not, it’s an abstinence program, and from my point of view the most powerful & truthful that’s out there. So it should be a good night.

I hope you are all doing well! I have almost exactly 2 months left. Lydia will arrive in less than 2 months, which means I have less than 2 months at Tanari. It seems like I just arrived! Everyone here at the office says “it feels like you’ve been here forever. In a good way!” And in ways it does. Well, no need for sadness yet because I do have about 9 weeks left here in Kenya, and I plan on living it up with all my wonderful friends here. Ok, on to the story….

Ok blog readers, I’ve got a good bug story for you!

Today at the office I was in the bathroom fixing my hair in a mirror. I am wearing a jacket with a sleeveless shirt, but when I was putting my hair back the jacket moved out of the way, allowing for me to see the side of my armpit! (Lovely so far….I know)

Well, I saw what looked like a tiny little scab. I began to pick at it to get it off & it wasn’t coming off. I tried to pluck it with my finger nails & nothing. Eventually I literally ripped it off my skin & it felt like I pulled a splinter out. When I examined this scab closely I noticed it had legs & the legs were moving. This bug was indeed crawling into my skin or least sucking my blood & it is almost microscopic! GROSS! More than the bug bits, the caterpillars in my hair, and seeing spiders often, this topped it all off! A bug was sucking my blood. And to kill it, we had to burn him!

As I began to write this little story to you, I came up to my office & there was a jumping spider on my headphones. Not a fun bug day apparently!

Well with that said I need to get back to work! Thanks for reading my bug horror story!

Soon,
Katie

Ps- tonight is the night (May 4th) that Mo is at my house in Carmel, if you want to stop by. 1425 Stonemill circle – Be there or be square.