A Beautiful Blessing

Life has been crazy lately. Busy, stressful, painful, joyful, challenging…full. It has been incredible. I know I need to give you Ethembeni updates, however I have 19 pages worth of papers to write by Sunday, a Zulu final next week, and service sites all day long…not much time to blog. But the coolest thing happened today that I HAD to fill you all in on, and then I promise to bring updates later this week.

The past couple days have been really incredible for our team in regards to the progress we’ve made with the staff. It’s been a goal of ours, being the first APU students ever at this service site, to build foundations and plant seeds for them, as opposed to accomplishing all these huge, tangible tasks. And it’s been going SO WELL! God has just blessed it exponentially, more than I ever thought and it has been the most wonderful thing to witness.

And today, God brought the coolest blessing. In the afternoon, it started pouring rain, with thunder and lightning…a pretty normal occurrence here in South Africa. But THEN! The rain stopped and God sent the most beautiful rainbow I have ever seen. Seriously. I could clearly identify every color, and you could see the entire arch! It was SO CLOSE. I honestly felt like we could have gone to the ends of it. I can’t even explain how beautiful it was. And the coolest part of the whole thing is that this rainbow was sitting directly above Mpophomeni.

I was staring at it, and was reminded of the first rainbow God sent. It was after a huge storm, but then He brought that rainbow as a reminder of His faithfulness and His goodness. We’ve been talking to the staff a lot lately about the problems of Mpophomeni (which I will fill you in on later!) and I wrote in my journal just last night that fixing these problems seems impossible. It’s such a cycle that there seems to be no possible way it could end. Seeing that rainbow though…I just felt God reminding me that yes, there are problems in that place, but He is so much bigger than all of those things. He is faithful and good and loves His children, and He will fulfill all of their needs.

It was a beautiful blessing.