As much as I love ministry and I like hanging out with the kids in Africa, I think some of my favorite moments on this past outreach were actually the all day car rides. Not because I just love being in a car, because I don't. I get super stir crazy and grumpy when I'm in a car for too long. On our last stretch from Alex to Cape Town (which was a 10 hour drive), I got to the point where I was trying to find a way to use my shirt as a slingshot. I was so bored and so stir crazy and so done with being in a car. BUT, Jesus seems to always know what you need. And this is what our view looked like on our car rides. I didn't even need a deck of cards, or a portable DVD player, or video games, if I got bored, all I had to do was look out the window and at the playground God has already created for us. Sometimes, I still catch myself gaping at the beauty of the Transkei. And then it always makes me curious when I think about the irony. That some of the poorest places in South Africa, like Comsholo, where I spent three days teaching soccer (yeah that was awkward. I don't know how to play soccer) can be the most geographically beautiful places. And then I think about how many people miss this. How many people come to the big cities in this country or the "vacation spots" and completely miss out on the natural beauty of this land because they are unwilling to go where there is not a hot shower and internet.
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