My family recently returned from holiday in our motherland (Zimbabwe).
As usual we prayed for everything – baggage weight, safe travel, protection, favour with people wherever we went, transport, and of course to enjoy the holiday.
We visited a game park where we nearly got lost and we were blessed to see God's creation. There we saw how God is awesome – think how huge and tall a giraffe can be, yet God has given us more wisdom and dominion over it.
It is even more intriguing for God to say to me if you want to be wise, don't look at the big five (Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo, Lion, Giraffe, etc.), but look at the little ant. Amazing, the things that God does!
A group of children including ours went mountain climbing where they could see many cities even a thousand kilometres away. Then came the false alarm by mobile, "we are lost, we are on the other side of the mountain, we thought we were coming down the right way!" As it turned out, they were joking.
We were not involved in accidents, we saw friends and family and we sang songs, talked, and we enjoyed everything.
The car nearly broke down, but it didn't. We thought we had forgotten some keys for our luggage back home, but there they were tucked safely somewhere in our purses. We thought we were catching the flue, but that too, quickly disappeared. There were shouts of a snake invading the dog's kennel outside the house, one night. And "Memo" the dog had spotted it himself and raised the alarm. This too proved a minor problem as it was only a small thing.
What then can we say?
After all the prayers in preparation for the journey, we now know He is faithful. His eyes were surely watching over us.
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. Psalm 33:18–19
Farai Mutsambiwa
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