Leap frog with a wha?!

I woke one morning with the most unpleasant thoughts going through my head, “leap frog with a unicorn? Nono, that doesn’t describe it, hot poker to the eyeball? Nope still not it, bamboo shards up the fingernails!” Well closer but still none of these things described the great feeling of unrest that I was experiencing! The one thing that has made me thing “I can’t do this! I can’t stay 6 months in the Congo!” what is this thing you might be asking yourselves, is it the mosquitoes? Is it the immense heat and humidity? Is it the racism towards white people? The food? The bugs? Lack of electricity and running water for long periods of time? Nope none of these things bother me in the least,. So what is it that is driving me insane to the point of tears? Well, it’s something that we have in the states, its something that we’ve all experienced I’m sure. To me it’s the most irritating sound in the world. Close your eyes and imagine being in a grocery store, and suddenly you hear it, “ MOOOOOOMMMMMYYYYYY I WANT THE CCAAAAAANNNNDDDYYYY!!!!!!” yes… the sound of a whiney child. We’ve all been the witness to the casualties of a “temper tantrum” and we’ve all seen the poor soul who is completely and utterly embarrassed by there child’s chosen way of expressing themselves, yet they allow it none the less. Now I consider myself to be an extremely patient individual, there is VERY little that can bother me and erk me, but yes this is it. This is probably the one thing that makes me think that the thought of being hung upside down by my big toes and dunked into a pool of starving piranhas sounds pleasant. And yes, God in his wisdom that I cant comprehend has put me to live with two of them. I wake up to the sound of the deathly screech of “MMMOOOOOMMMMAAAAA!!!!” almost every morning, I am always in danger of a whiney and pouty child that can explode at any minute. Now you may be thinking “oh Wezley suck it up and stop being such a baby, that’s what kids do, they cry, you obviously haven’t spent time with children.” But oh how that isn’t true. I have spent a VERY large amount of time with kids. I know that this may be what is “normal” but just because its normal does that mean its exceptable? In countries where canabalism is “normal” is it also exceptable? Can we really imagine the patriarch Abraham raising Isaac to be a tantrum baby? Much more can we imaging Jesus to have been a tantrum baby? I find it very doubtful. Why? Because there are always those pleasant exceptions to the whiney child rule, ah yes the infatesimaly few who are just so pleasant to be around, who when they want something there parents have taught them to come up and ask for it instead of throwing a fit to get its parents attention! Ah yes the pleasant few indeed. But fear not, if any of you are close to the blessing that God has given us of having a child. I have a sulution! Infants cry, that’s unavoindable, there helpless and don’t have any other way of communicating. But as soon as the child can verbalize words, there is no reason to continue to allow the constant crying for every little thing it wants! So my solution is simply this, if its not hurt simply agnore the crying. easy as pie, instruct it to come and ask you for the thing that it desires, if it continues the tantrum continue to not acknowledge them. Simple! I could all but guarantee that this would help if not solve this problem! But since I don’t think that most people are going to be willing to do this on there children I think that I will have to wait until I find that poor soul who I covince to marry me. I am finding myself quoting “trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understandings, in all your ways acknowledge HIM and he will set your paths straight.” God has given me a very unexpectant chanlange here in Africa, but I will continue to trust that HE has a greater purpose for this more then just annoying me. May God continue to bless you all through out this week.

In His service

-Wezley