Lows to Highs
[ Previous Post ] “Boo-hoos and Woo-hoos time!” It’s part of our rhythm here. Over the evening meal we take time to share the highs and the lows, as part of processing the day together. We laugh, we cry. This blog is called Visit Home of Hope, and it's important not to romanticise. I woke up this morning to no running water. This I discovered after shaving and thirty seconds in to a shower when the pressure suddenly dropped to zero. I rinsed my face and washed my hair with half a small bottle of drinking water left over from yesterday, then went out to investigate. (There are water supply taps outside the building and the children sometimes turn them off…) I mention this because it inspired my first “Woo-hoo” this evening! I don’t like an interrupted shower any more than the next person, but what I absolutely loved was the complete un-phased-ness of the team, as one by one they woke up and learned it was a dry-tap Tuesday. And this after a 30 hour journey here on Monday. Not one p...