christmas in Kenya

Hello,
With this blog I want to wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year. May the blessings of the most high God be with you and may his peace surround you every day. His peace is real and it makes all the difference in our lives. I am just from our friends house where he have watched the nativity story where you see the christmas story through Marys eyes. It is so unbelievable and unconceivable that God chose Mary to bear his son so that he can dwell among us. The amount of shame and disbelief Mary had to suffer for the sake of being the vessel God had chosen. No wonder it is so hard to believe for many even today. But that is what God wanted to do, that is his plan of salvation. He chose to become a baby so that he can be just like us and know where we are hurting and where our difficulties are. The story of Christmas is full of wonders, full of miracles. If you have time, and you should find time, go through it again and discover some of those miracles and see how they can affect your life today.
Last night, christmas eve, many of us, foreigners and Kenyans went charoling in the hospital. A nice opportunity to share a little bit of the christmas joy with those who have to be in the Hospital during this season. I think all of them were very happy to hear the songs and have a word of hope shared with them. With many we were able to pray at their bedsides and give an encouragement to them.
Later in the evening as it is our custom in Germany, we exchanged the gifts, not exactly under a firtree but the next closest to that.
At the end of this blog I remember that almost exactly one year ago I wrote my first blog here under this address.
Thanks for reading and keeping your self updated with our lives here in Kenya, blessings Thomas