Please God, not Africa!

I have to admit that Christmas here is just plain weird. I mean, we're Canadian, right?  So for us, the Christmas season is evidenced by things like cold, snow, candles, fire in the fireplace, cozy blankets, hot chocolate, lights, trees... Celebrating Christmas with the heavy dust of Harmattan falling from the sky rather than snow, and sweating buckets rather than shivering....well, it didn't seem very Christmas-y. But it was a lovely Christmas and I mean that.  We enjoyed many festive events in the days leading up to Christmas: a Christmas movie night, Christmas cookie delivery and carollers (seriously, a group of young missionaries knocked on our gate and serenaded us with carols), a children's Christmas play written by our own MK teachers, and more. Oh Christmas tree. When I was in Lome in early December, I found a little tree.  It took about 4 minutes to decorate it, but with that and some Christmas music playing, it was beginning to feel a little like Christm

We’ve been in Togo for exactly one month today.   And you know what’s even crazier than that?   It’s exactly 4 years ago tomorrow that Kylie hurt her foot – and to think of all that happened after December 16, 2012 and now, here we are, by God’s grace, back in Togo and Kylie is healed.   How incredible to look back along the path and see how God worked on our behalf!   We weren’t sure we’d ever be able to come back here and look – here we are. So it’s been a quite a month.   Man, if you could just pop over for a cup of coffee I could tell you story after story, some funny, some not-so-much.   Since you likely aren’t popping over and I don’t drink coffee anyhow, let me tell you a couple… Furniture Shopping in the Middle of the Night Our house here in Togo is great.   It has three bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living/dining area and a kitchen.   I’ll show you photos some day so you get an idea of what it’s like. The one thing we don’t have much of is actual furniture.   It’s