Are You Ready for Some Futbol?

OK, so it is Superbowl Sunday.  Big soccer game on TV here.  I will get to that later.

The day is beautiful.  After breakfast I went outside to drink coffee.  It was so beautiful out, calm, peaceful, birds chirping and warm enough to be in shirtsleeves.  The music from the Nairobi Baptist Church, next door, was wafting through the air.  I was curious, and it being Sunday, I walked over and joined in.  The music was beautiful, songs that I knew.  It really was not all that different from the type of service I am used to.  No communion, but the creed, prayers, New Testament lesson (Mark).  And the people were so kind.  Like at St. Paul's, the announcements were long but important.  I think that no matter the denomination, no matter the city, no matter the country, churches seem to have the same worries and issues - is there enough money for a project, is there enough participation to keep a program going, what are we going to do about the leaking roof.  I think that Omnipotent being I call God, you may call something else, makes things not too easy.  Things you work for and learn from make sense after you get past the human pettiness of life.  Each of us can soar if we just listen to the lessons we learn - good and bad.

I went to the airport to pick up Aaron.  He arrived from Istanbul.  He had been there for three days.  He really liked it.  He also had a good time in Egypt, regardless of his last few days.  I think he has found that the world was much more informed and worried than he was.  I made the comment that if all you knew about Chicago was what was in the paper, you would never go there.  The media does get fixated on the problems and somewhat magnifies a particular problem that the people in the middle of may be aware of, but not nearly as bothered by as those outside.  I found this to be true last year when the World Court put an arrest warrant out for President Al-Bashir.  Really had no impact on us here in Werkok.

Tomorrow Aaron and I are going to Juba.  There is a slight chance that we will go with AIM Air straight to Werkok, but that does not look promising.  I will let you all know tomorrow what happens.  We went out for Ethiopian food tonight.  I have been to this restaurant numerous times.  It is great and I got my fix.. At the Ethiopian restaurant, I made a comment of the Superbowl being on as so many people were inside this restaurant watching TV, turns out that there was a huge "futbol" game on the TV - Not our kind of football..  Here I thought I was going to see the Superbowl.  We just have to get our fotbols correct.  It will be on here around 1:30 am.  I guess I will not stay up for that.  Will look at it online tomorrow.

Everything is fine.  I am just most anxious to get to Sudan.  I think tomorrow.
God bless
C