Africa Part 3

 I close my eyes and feel your warm, sunny breeze on my face and through my hair

I don't know you, yet you feel familiar

in ways I cannot seem to understand.

You have somehow always been in my heart

in dreams that come at night.

I long to take you all in to understand

you and yet I cannot

I nurse my baby under your trees

and next to your children

We sit in silence next to each other

Like old friends who need no words

to be in each others company

Yet a part of me feels

like my feet are not on the ground,

my body and soul are up in the big huge blue sky

that covers you with beauty and light

I am looking down, watching like Peter in the window of Wendy's house

I don't live here

I don't even belong

Yet the stories are about me and I would be warmly welcomed

with open arms and open hearts

She takes a deep breath on my chest as she sleeps

Three before her have done the same

She is revival

She is God's promise born and in the flesh

That He lives and He speaks

She is proof that you are part of my destiny

Yet she calls my attention away from you for now

As she wakes in the night and the day

To be nourished from my very body

The three that also call my name now with their words and their arms

They reach out to me to give them more and more

I cannot do both

The very words bring tears and pain to my whole being

Weak defeat on my lips and at the end of my pen

Lord give me grace and mercy to do all in your time and place

Jesus that I would do both with excellence and grace

Holy Spirit that I would have your fruits and power 

to accomplish all that you have for me

My mind and heart wander back to you oh Africa

I miss you even though I don't really know you

Africa I long for you

you are a part, somehow

of who I am and where I will be

Yet I know you have let me go to no longer hold you as an idol in my heart

Over and before my true God

When it is time I will come and I pray that it will be in power and with the grace of the living God

If  I could have just walked around this beautiful land, learned Swahili, and hugged these beautiful faces, that would have been enough for me. 

So thankful for this. 

Love 

B