Stitch 1, Stitch 2, Stitch 3..

Such an exciting week here in Kijabe. Last Thursday, Cassie and I went on the mobil clinic to an area called Thika. We were working in a school for the disabled. There were so many disabilities to see, but it's amazing the efficiency and speed of the doctors working. People come from the community and the school to have follow-up visits. They also come to be evaluated for surgery or just inspection to see if surgery is needed. We made so many friends in Thika and we later found out that 3 people came to know Jesus Christ as their Savior at the mobil clinic. 

Some of the kids!

My awesome new friend Bilha!

 We had a very chill weekend of watching movies. I managed to go on a nice, long run and Cassie and I met with some senior girls from RVA to talk about college and their new exciting journeys to the United States! The O.R. has been pretty slow this week.


Monday, I scrubbed into Daisy's surgery to help correct her club foot. When it came time to stitch up her incision, Dr. Mbuguae handed me the stitches and said it was my turn to learn! I have never been so nervous in a surgery in my life. Stitching up is definitely more stressful than making the incision. Slowly and nervously I learned how to stitch!  

Tomorrow, all the girls, Cassie, Lauren and our new friend Charmi (she's from the U.K. and has an awesome English accent) will be heading to Uganda to raft the Nile River!! We are stoked and would love for you to be praying for safe travel! 


I have been recently studying the book of Isaiah and the Lord has been teaching me so much through it. A lot of things that I have already learned, but opening my eyes to new things and reminding me of how great His love is for me. Isaiah 30:1-5 warns us of how if we are a people who pursue a plan, not of the Lord, we will only find shame and disgrace. We later see in Isaiah 30:8-17 that people will rebel. People will lie and many people will refuse to hear anything of Jesus, but because they choose this life they will bear iniquity and like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse they will break suddenly. Isn't that true of so many of us? When we run from Christ, when we rebel and want nothing to do with Him, we reach a point where we can't take the weight bearing on us anymore. We can no longer support ourselves and we break suddenly. Thankfully, it is in the rest and in this quietness after breaking that we are saved and find our strength. The beauty of Grace is that if we are willing, if we want help, if we surrender and accept the fact that we cannot stand on our own, the Lord waits to show us grace...

"Therefore the Lord WAITS to be gracious to you, therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who WAIT for him." 

Isaiah 30:18 

Just in case you didn't catch that, the Lord himself, like the guy who created the Heavens and the Earth, the one who suffered death on a cross WAITS for us. For more clarification, I did a little research. 

Wait: 

Stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or until something else happens

Remain in readiness for some purpose

Synonyms: 

verb: await, expect, abide

noun: waiting, expectation, expectancy, expectance, anticipation

The God of the universe ANTICIPATES for you to come to Him. He desires for you to turn to Him and BLESSED are those who do. The Lord has been rocking my world with the Scripture, over and over again. How can you not feel love through that? It is my prayer that if you are at that breaking point, if you are in the rest and in the quietness, turn to Him. His blessings are so much more promising and in Him there is so much more joy to be found.