english update

Hi,
time is flying by, especially now as we are getting ready to go to Germany in less than a month from now. Dorothy and I will be going on 7th of June, Hanna-Joy will be in the dorm here at RVA and Benjamin will stay with friends here on the station. For Dorothy it will be only one week to be out of Africa until she joins the kids again.
Things are cool here in Kenya and our focus is more and more directed towards Somalia. We are grateful to be able to live in a peaceful nation again, even after it looked terrible for a short while. We just so appreciate peace and what it means for a nation to have peace and freedom. Living in fear and not knowing when the killers may strike is just terrorizing. The short period of terror Kenya has experienced in those few months early this year was a shock for the entire region of East Africa. Just imagine that Somalia is going through this now for 18 years. People are traumatized and hurt for a lifetime. The thing is, that you get used to almost everything, that means that even war and killings and rape, becomes normal, it becomes the order of the day.
One of our friends here in the hospital, was shot in the lower abdomen by his colleague for no apparent reason. He spent many months in different Hospitals and was already given up. Yet, one doctor told him that he is gonna live and come out of this. He testified to me, that the only thing he has seen in that country is darkness and hate. Life has become worth nothing and people don't value this precious thing God has given to us. The power of the gun is ruling in so many places in Somalia. People are literally crying out to God to restore that nation once again.
May the prince of peace come, have a lovely weekend, Thomas