Comments on: I Need Africa, Part Two

By: Robin (PENSIEVE)

Robin (PENSIEVE) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:05:07 +0000

Wow, Sophie…I’m hearing “Twilight Zone” music right now; I just posted @ Africa this morning myself:

http://pensieve.typepad.com/pensieve/2008/12/zimbabwe.html

And now I see YOUR post (& links I’ll follow) and I’m just stunned.

God is amazing.

By: katdish

katdish — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:59:10 +0000

To read about a young, female missionary teaching HIV/AIDS awareness in Nigeria, visit Mare at "It Might be Hope. She's pretty awesome...

By: marisa

marisa — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:27:26 +0000

thanks so much for posting this, sophie!

By: kathleen

kathleen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:25:29 +0000

wow . . . i need africa more than africa needs me . . . thanks

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:00:31 +0000

Thank you. For posting this. It was odd for me to click into the video and hear my friend Katie’s song playing. (Her music is amazing. I have a link to her on my page.) And that just made the tears fall even more. I have this deep ache in my heart for other countries where possession is lacking, but joy abounds. For continents where material wealth is not known, but the abundance comes in the heart. As a worship leader I look out over congregations and see the sad faces, the half hearted clapping… when I’m leading a more “free” group there may even be jumping and whooping. But that is rare. Then I look at Africa. I see people singing from the bottom of their lungs, all the way to the sky… jumping because they can’t help it… laughing because joy just spills out. My parents have gone and given and seen. My sister has gone and given and seen. Someday I will go. I will give. I will see. Because I do need Africa more than it needs me. As I lead worship every weekend I know that we, as a materially blessed people with unhealthy hearts, need Africa so much more than we know. So much more than it needs us. My heart aches. But, someday we will all be jumping together and singing from the bottom of our lungs… and we’ll already be in the sky.

Thank you.