A Few of My Favorite Things

Mary, Benedicta, and Abigail

• Teiko coming up to me one evening and pulling my face down to hers and kissing me on the cheek goodnight. 
• Sitting on my front porch surrounded by all my children reading my children’s storybook Bible to them.
  
  
• Godfred saying, “The rain beat you,” when I fell in all the slippery mud trying to walk to the girl’s house during the heavy rain and storm.
  
  
• Justiana and Comfort combing my hair while Abigail lays her head in my lap and falls asleep as I talk and tell stories with Mary, Justiana, and Comfort.
  
  
• The children calling me Ma Jenny, Jenny Flower, or Jenny Flowers…Jenny Flowers all the time…but most of all I like Ma Jenny.
  
  
• Creating glass bead Christmas ornaments with the girls while singing praise songs to God…worshiping together through creating art was so beautiful!
  
  
• Learning the local language Twi and trying out my new phrases with the children and adults who all seem to smile and enjoy my efforts.
  
  
• Playing hopscotch with the girls and Ma Paulina, the house mom, in the dirt with a stone.
  
  
• Being surrounded by God’s beautiful creation here in the bush of Africa!