God is green:

So, despite being sick, i've been pretty busy for the past few weeks.

I went to a town right on the border with kenya, in another district called

"Bukwo" and the town which bears the same name. I did some leadership training

whilst there. I also had the privelage of sharing the resurrection sunday message

with the people. We have also started working on a christian environmental awareness

message, to the community, the church, and the country, starting in Bukwo. Praise God.

In the rain, in the calm, he is there. 

Amidst trouble and tyranny he is there.

the belief that strength made perfect,

perfected in weakness. If that is true,

how strong are the poor? the oppressed?

The orphan, the widow. That is where we 

should go to learn about true strength,

the humility to rely on the help and 

goodwill of others. To rely only on God,

not trusting in man. To know that when

they look up to the mountains in their live

their help is coming, their God will not

forsake them. He hears the cries of the widow,

the cry of the orphan, the cry for help.

The Lord builds the house,it will stand the storms of life

the promise of trouble is oh so true. We know the suffering,

Our eyes are open to the terrors of evil in this world. 

The grip is weakening,

A day is coming, a day of glory, when everyone will run to the mountain of 

the Lord. They will cast aside all of the things that the clung to, the treasures

in this life that they had to have, that they sacrificed to, the idols they carry with

them every day, casting them aside onto the ground, trampled by the people

Going to the mountain of God. They burdens we carry will only make it hard

for us to run to the mountain.

The day is coming where the sword will be beaten into a plowshare, the spear 

into a pruning hook, and never again will they learn war. Instead there will 

teaching of peace, of a new kingdom that is founded on the blood of the lamb,

in the peace of His Love.

Don't feel forsaken, don't feel that the lord is far away, know that, as switchfoot says

"the shadow proves the sunshine"

if we see war all around us, we can rejoice knowing a day of peace will come,

if we see destruction around us, we can know that God will redeem creation,

if death, hope for Christ, if hate, hope for love. The shadow will pass away

and we will be left staring into the pure light and knowing that the pure light

is within us.

My hope is in the future, in the sunrise.

one last thought,

And you, Child, will be called the prophet of the 

Most High; For you will go on before the Lord to 

prepare His ways;to give to his people the knowledge 

of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins,

Because of the tender mercy of our God,

WITH WHICH THE SUNRISE FROM ON HIGH WILL VISIT US, 

TO SHINE UPON THOSE WHO SIT IN DARKENESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH,

To guide our feet into the way of peace.

Christ came to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Praise HIM!

And at last, morning comes. For a life lived in darkness, the first true glimpse of

the sun is breath-taking. It stings the eyes, it burns the skin, it washes away

all the inky darkness. After seeing it, you would never want to look back into the 

quagmire that you dwelt in for so long. Glorious, painful,

but tender sunrise. Sunrise that brings life to creation. 

the trees awaken to praise,

the birds sing its glory. 

All you can do is stand in awe of the coming day.

Letting true light wash over.