This hasn’t much to do with Vessels and Flowers, but I want to write a few blogs about me. About my unusual life and here is one about the unusual places I have lived.
They were just a few words spoken during prayer, but they meant a great deal to me. I am talking about a time when we were in Mesaru, Lesotho, Africa. We had been there for about 5 months, serving with Mission Aviation Fellowship, and had been asked to move to Umtata, Transkai to restart a flight program there.
A few of the MAF ladies had met at my apartment to pray for me and for our move. While a dear friend, Judy Holz, was praying for me she said these words, “And dear Lord, we pray for Sally, who has already been to the unusual places of the world.”
I have often wondered if Judy realized just how meaningful and powerful those words were to me. “The unusual places of the world…” It really started me to thinking. I sat there and thought of Sentani, Irian Jaya; the islands of Yap, Guam, Ulithi in the Micronesian islands; not to mention the many, many places we had lived in the United States.
To date we have moved 59 times since we were married. Many of those moves were job or mission related. It usually had something to do with an airplane. During Deputation we moved many times to be in a place for a while in order to speak to several churches. While on staff for MAF we lived in several of their mission homes.
After that stay in Transkai, Africa, we moved again to Botswana, Africa. When we came back to the States, we lived in several more places. Again they were all job related. I have no idea how many more moves God has for us. I just enjoy looking back at the “unusual places’ we have lived. They are all filled with interesting memories of unusual places and unusual people.
Thanks God. I have learned so much about people and about You in those unusual places.
Blessings.
