This morning I woke up to my phone ringing. At 7. Okay, its true that a lot of Ghanaians get up and about at 5 or 6, but I prefer not to. Anyway, I answered the phone and ended up hearing that there would be a composer coming to the Dagbani Language Project for me to meet at 8:30. I said I would be there. After jumping in the car with my host father, I let out a complaint about why they couldn't give me just a little more notice! He reminded me that patience is necessary to survive in Africa. He always has a million things to do, yet he manages to do them gracefully until it reaches a certain point. He told me how you can get really worn out if you don't put on your "shock absorbers." It's so true. You need some heavy duty shock absorbers to deal with life here sometimes.
Funny. Shock absorbers sound a lot like God. "Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall." Psalm 55:22
I think I've been learning to let my shock absorbers take more of the shock instead of trying to absorb it all myself!
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