A word of gratitude. I feel very thankful for the prayers supporting me being in this country. My gratitude is compounded by the fact that one of our friends here had to leave the country (permanently) today. Immigration issues and such... She found out last week that she had seven days to leave and that was that. Obviously this is an incredibly sudden and difficult thing, especially given that she had arrived here only weeks before me and was planning to stay here for quite some time. Last night a group of us gathered to spend time together, pray for her, and hang out at a restaurant on the Nile for her last night in Egypt. Though it is so hard to watch her in the midst of this struggle, we all can trust there is great (if unknown) purpose for her leaving.
The same day that she was asked to leave, my own visa was completely sorted out. Something for which I am extremely grateful...
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"Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way, because it is precisely through these stories, in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but spiritually. " ~Frederick Buechner
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