The ROC kids
Christmas has come and gone in Rwanda. I would love to have spent it with my family in the U.S. at a temperature below 85 degrees with a feast and football game after church. The season here has passed without seeing a single Christmas-based advertisement or hearing a single Christmas jingle. It has passed without seeing an angel tree, or hearing Christmas tunes being pumped through the mall. It has passed without a special sessional Sonic drink. There were no Christmas parades or lights on homes. Yet, for all the “no’s” there are plenty of “yes’s”. I have my lovely wife and daughters with whom I enjoyed celebrating. Family and friends from the U.S. blessed us with some gifts shipped thousands of miles at horrendous rates. We have wonderful colleagues to share the holiday with who also mourn the distance of loved ones on special days. We were blessed to worship with a wonderful community in a facility that was no doubt a “yes” from God to go and do His work. We enjoyed the events our school and church hosted as wonderful ways were found to project the love of baby who would become the King to a community of beautiful people. Tomorrow much of the world returns to its folly with many forgetting what stopped them for a moment today. JOY, PEACE, LOVE, HOPE, FORGIVENESS … they don’t stop today. May your Christmas be the beginning of 364 more days of the same. Let your Christmas be a “yes” for tomorrow.
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ROC Partners
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3007 NW 63rd, Ste 205
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
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