The other night (Saturday), I was talking to a missionary friend here who had a rough week. We were talking about how rough things happen and it's pretty easy to get discouraged because it seems pretty major, especially when you don't have much of a support network and it feels like you're balancing on a very thin wire. Her trouble was mainly financial and administrative, and I talked about how I think God has been teaching me to rely on him and trust that he'll work things out. It's true, and he's worked many things out.
Anyway, at 2am on Sunday, only a half-dozen hours after we had been talking about this, I woke to hear what sounded like something was boiling over or getting ready to explode or something. So I shook off a bit of stupor and discovered that the rear tire on my motorcycle was rapidly deflating. So tonight I'll be taking the rear wheel off my motorcycle so I can try to get that fixed. Unfortunately, it looks like it's more complicated than taking the wheel off of a car.
Even though I'm not thrilled to have to fix this, and I don't like being without my mode of transportation, I do think that I've learned a lot about trusting. It hasn't always been a fun lesson, but a lot of the time here, I don't always know what's coming next. And I don't have a good plan for the next ten years of my life. But my time in Swaziland has turned out to be great for me, and I think I've learned that although I don't always know where I'm going, or what will happen, God does.
-Ben
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