update

Hello,
This may be the last blogentry for this year. Isn't it amazing how fast this year has gone by? So many things were in it. When I look back a little further I realize now that it is exactly two years since I started my blog, that was the time we had the elections here in Kenya and it seemed as if the devil himself was loose. People were killing one another and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from their homesteads and farms. Of course many things went back to normal and life goes on as usual except of the many camps which are dotting the landscape all over the country. That is still a reminder that things aren't completely back to normal and terrible things had happened. How the healing process is going on between the tribes and fractions is hard to say. People here have a tendency of covering up and pretending that nothing really has happened only to be caught by it at a later time. We are praying for a good way of dealing with the issues and that those who are responsible for the atrocities would be tried and convicted so that the citizens realize that you can not just get away with any kind of crime.
My family is all back together here in Kenya again. Dorothy had a short trip to Germany to visit family, all went well and I believe she had a really good time and she had many stories to tell. I think she was glad to be back in Kenya. Hanna-Joy had a great time in Mozambique she came back just a day before her mom got back. It was her first trip alone and she managed pretty well.
For me, I am busy in the Hospital, listening to stories from the land in Anarchy which lies to our east. I could enter stories here in the blog, but sometimes I wonder who wants to hear and listen to those brutal and inhumane stories. Yesterday I was talking to one lady who came from Mogadishu not long ago. She narrated that girls who are wearing lipsticks are getting their lips cut off. First time I ever heard that one. People who are talking over the phone to people outside the country and give out news of what is happening in the land are having their ears cut off. And the list goes on and on and it is getting more brutal every day. We just feel that this land with its people who are still remaining in the land needs the God who loves people more than anything and therefore we need to pray that God would do something extraordinary to its people.
I believe God can, and therefore we still work, because we serve a living God. Have a blessed year 2010, Thomas