Night Prayers

Two really special moments today: one, when, at lunchtime I hear some of Class Four rolling out singing part of a song I’m teaching them, “One two three four five six seven…”. The words continue: “...All good children go to heaven; that’s why there are so very few on earth!”

Then, later, Moses, Benedict and I were doing a little more work on the staff hen enclosure at the end of the day when Benedict said

"I must go and dismiss the children.” I asked him if they said a prayer together, and might I come too to say goodnight to the class. “Why don’t you go and dismiss them?" he suggested.

So I grabbed the AH hymn book from my tent (the copy which we have presented as a gift to Moses) and I quickly found something fairly suitable.

The children lined up on their assembly stones, I showed them our cherry hymn book and said a word or two about it before reading:

God be in my head, and in my understanding;

God be in my eyes and in my looking;

God be in my mouth and in my speaking;

God be in my heart and in my thinking;

God be at my end, and at my departing.

One other piece of good news: we can now charge the laptop from the solar charged battery which powers the elephant wire. Yippee!

I’m off to spend a day or so with the neighbours tomorrow, the lNgwesi ranch six miles to the north. I might be in for the VIP treatment, or at least a warm shower! I’ll let you know when I next write.

ps Just read some of your latest comments. Well done AH on all your victories, and thank you especially for your comment, Alejandro. May I reply in more detail tomorrow?