• There is no place like home, but Betty found a second home with two people who were willing to share their lives and work with her.

    Sr. Freda, a courageous woman who developed a free hospital near Kitale because she couldn't bear seeing people crawl on their hands and knees to some distant clinic and Emmanuel, a Maasai man who had to sell his two bottom teeth for a cow to put him through high school. He returned to his village and built a school for orphaned and special needs children in the mountainous region of Kilgoris. This is their story and the story of the children they are helping.

Betty’s Journal: Day Eleven

I am feeling tired today.  Being with people everyday is a challenge for me.

Last night I tried to sleep but woke with strange dreams. I dreamed of my paternal grandmother.  She was sitting in an open doorway, a huge open doorway and I could see clouds passing by behind her.  She was looking at me with loving eyes and a wide smile as she leaned against the door frame, her hands in her lap.  She appeared to be waiting for me.  Perhaps it is here, on this rusty soil of Kenya, where we will meet again at heavens door.

The mysteries and magic of life I have found is not in what can be seen by my mind, but what is seen by my heart.  Oh, my mind is good at getting me places and keeping my life in good order, a tool to help me survive, but it is my soul that depends on my hearts eye and it is here I find my greatest adventures and happiness.  Although, as adventurous as dying maybe I resist its lure, and long to see the faces of my children once again.

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  1. Jill

     /  July 13, 2014

    Sounds like the time away from your own bed was beginning to wear on you at this point!

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