Hey everyone! It’s Abby on Lauren’s account… I forgot my password (surprise) :).
Being in Moshi has been such a blessing so far – God’s beauty radiates through all the brokenness that we’re see so brightly. Isaiah 55:12 says that “for you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” I think about where we physically are – ar the feet of Mt. Kilimanjaro surrounded by God’s hot pink flowers and swaying trees that keep dancing for Him. He’s been constantly showing His beauty throughout this summer, but here in Tanzania amidst one of the biggest mountains in the world and under His warming sun, I’m left speechless. He tells us the rocks willl cry out to Him, His mountains are singing for His glory and His trees clap and sway in awe of Him. Even thinking about it makes me sway, too. It’s like the Holy Spirit is always moving and so I can’t stop moving. Moshi can’t stop swaying.
It may sound silly, but I dreampt of this place and how present God is in it a few night ago. Mt Kilimanjaro began to shake, snow scattering from the tops of it, and the Tanzanian women at the bottom stretched their arms toward Heaven, like children they ached for God to pick them up, and they jumped for Him with teary faces that spilled onto their smiles. And there was just the most beautiful sound, the sound of worship pouring out of the mountain and the women and the ground they danced on… I woke up and I knew that God has an incredible plan for this place, that the abused and the broken women of this land are being rescued by their true Father, that God hasn’t forgotten about His daughters. That this land has an undescribable beautiful and valuable song to sing from the depths of its heart to God’s, and that He hears it. Praise Him, for He is a Father who hears us, who heals.
