Traditionally each year on our anniversary we check out some live music. The first anniversary we flew to Charlotte to see Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Floetry in concert. The second year we drove to Atlantic City to see Earth, Wind, & Fire. This third anniversary, the live music came in the form of the small gospel choir at the Ridgeway Baptist Church in Nairobi Kenya. We attended the 11:00 service as guests of Humphrey’s, which was interesting because the church had missionary visitors from Houston Texas, and the guest pastor delivered the word. While the guest minister was relatively unremarkable in his message, the pastor of the church and the congregation were incredibly warm.
For the record nothing is open in Nairobi on a Sunday afternoon or evening.
Nothing.
So we spent the rest of the day packing for our trip to the coast, where we really celebrating this moment in our marriage. As some of you know, this is a transitional time for both of us. My fellowship is ending and I have just accepted a new position with the theatre; Marcus is leaving the army and going to graduate school to get his MBA; and we are finally moving full time into the same house (no more long weekend commutes!). There have been many sacrifices on both of our parts to make the life we have chosen work and today I feel so blessed that we have arrived in this space together.
To quote the pastor “God is good all the time. And all the time God is good.”
Let the church say Amen.
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