The Beauty of Zimbabwe!



Beau kissing a baby chameleon that we found!

Our time here in Zimbabwe has been met with plenty of challenges. At times the level of poverty, illness, and tragedy that the Shona people endure is overwhelming. It often seems we go weeks without "happy endings". Most of the patients that come to the hospital have advanced disease and there is often little that medicine or surgery can do for there physical bodies. I often wonder how a just God can allow such suffering to occur. Just when I think He is nowhere to be seen I get glimpses of His love from a multitude of places. I see Him in His creation with the beauty of nature all around us everyday. I see Him in the Shona children, with their bright eyes and big smiles full of hope for the future. I see Him in the newborn infant who once had no heartbeat and now is crying in his mothers arms. I see Him in the men and women, who despite the wasting of there physical bodies have now come to know the Lord and will live with us in eternity! All of this just scratches the surface on the love God has for us. In Ephesians 3:17-19 it says:

"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of the fullness of God."

Heres some pictures showing the beauty that is in Zimbabwe!



That same baby chameleon up close!



Pools, and waterfalls next to the river....Luckily no Crocs!



The view from Three Hills overlooking the river.




A Zimbabwean bird busily making a nest!




A unique design on this butterfly.





A lone baobab tree,a symbol of the beauty and ruggedness of Africa

 


Three bright-eyed kids that live right below the Three Hills.



Can't leave out a picture of a great brai (BBQ) on Dr Vinzant's birthday!





Pulpit Rock, I still can't believe we climbed that last year....actually twice!




A beautiful African flower!