Finally, Quiet

I thought I would be alone a lot here. I was looking forward to it quite a lot :) With rather mixed feelings I'm finding that not at all the case; so that's why this Fri night I am relishing being home alone--this is the first time since I arrived that I have a whole night of nothing! Ah, bliss.

And so, I'm reading Out Stealing Horses which I found lying around here, EXCELLENT, a perfect quiet night read in the vein of Potok or Coetzee if you're a fan... listening to Juan Luis Guerra, boiling water for pasta, eating yet more fruit, and stirring every time one of the half dozen clocks in this house goes off.

Work has been much better. I have a lot to do finally (and NOT translating! WOOT). Still I am constantly humbled by how stupid I feel here. It's a really good thing for me. I don't feel like I'm serving anyone or being useful in any way... but God's reminded me in the last couple days that I DO NOT MATTER anyways--it is not about ME--what matters is the fulfillment of his plan-->to bring himself glory. Yet amazingly, I do matter to him, in spite of my stupidity and faithlessness to love him, he LOVES ME... read this today, "The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was NOT because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD LOVES YOU." deut7:6-8. Crazy. Be encouraged guys. Thankfully he loves us not for ourselves but for the NEW selves he's created within us...