Reflections

Hello from Kenya, as the trip is quickly waning this will probably be one of my last blogs, so I guess I’ll just share how the my time in Kenya has gone.

This was definitely the best thing I could have done this semester, it has been an incredible experience. I am sad that it is ending so soon, and that I will have to say goodbye to the friends I have made here, but I know God will be with all of us.

The most convicting thing has been going to the IDP camp twice a week. The people have so little, they were forcefully displaced from their homes and sent to live in tents out in the valley. No one cares about them, the government has tried to ignore the problem, their former neighbors were the ones who attacked them and so they must go on everyday alone. Trying to find work in whatever way they can so that they have enough money to feed their children. Some of the parents have given up and just left their kids to fend for themselves. So you have a fourteen year old girl trying to go to school and look after her younger brothers at the same time. All the while we are preparing to spend billions on Christmas decoration and presents to celebrate the birth of a man who loved the poor and gave everything for them. I don’t know how I’ll be able to feast at Thanksgiving and Christmas and get gifts in a nice house while children play with bottles in the middle of kenya. I knew I would see poor people, but I dont think I ever understood how much I have been blessed before I came here. Now I see that we must use what we have been given to bless others.