Christmas

Christmas has been interesting this year. I am so happy and blessed to be able to spend time with my family here in America! I know that I will not be able to be here every Christmas from this year on so I am trying to make the most of it. But I tell you what, this whole having two families on opposite sides of the globe if difficult, to say the least. I love being with my American family but I am missing my Rwandan family at the same time. Oh my...

I did get to call my Rwandan family on Christmas. I tried to call them all afternoon on Christmas Eve but the lines were busy I guess. So I decided to stay up late and call them at midnight, which was seven o'clock on Christmas morning in Rwanda! It was so great to hear all their voices! They were so excited and I could hardly understand them because they were all trying to talk to me at the same time. My little brother, Ntwari, asked me if he could sing a song for me and he sang me a very spirited version of Trading My Sorrows (I sent them a cd of English worship songs.). So precious! My sister, Christine, keep tellling me that there were dishes for me to wash:) I used to always come up to her when we were washing dishes and say "Ndashaka gufasha" which means "I want to help." My older brother Eric even ran down the street in his "jammies" to take the phone to the church so that I could talk to the pastors and my sister Alice who was helping to get ready for the Christmas service. What a blessing to be able to talk with the pastors of my church! I love them so much and this is the first I have been able to talk to them on the phone.

It was a phone call filled with much laughter and many tears! How my heart longs to see all their precious faces again! Thank you Lord for letting me have them in my life!