Hanging out in the hotel bathroom

It’s 5:09 am and I have to laugh, again I find myself writing while sitting upon the thrown. Not for any reason, praise God, other than not to wake Elaine, and excited to share the adventures of the last few hours. Watching the Lord protect us, direct us and provide for us was unbelievable in reflection. When we arrived in Lusaka, the area of the hotel has the power shut down. This happened daily during the Conference, but one of pieces of equipment outside the gate was a military surplus generator. I don’t think we were without power for more than 5 minutes at any given time. Zambia, like South Africa is unable to provide power for all the country, so they arbitrarily shut down grids. The hotel was black when we should have arrived. Dennis said they had to fill out the forms by candlelight.
Well, the driver turned left rather than right at some point and we were lost. He, unlike the American male species … stopped and asked directions. We could have told him we were lost, especially after seeing some of the same sites 3 times, but he didn’t ask us. The bus was a great adventure. We started singing songs, and eventually digressed to the Gilligan Island song, to which Elaine and I almost lost it, texted Tracey and asked her to share. She too must have thought we were crazy as we received no reply. Well after a good hour of roaming the city of Lusaka, the driver asked some guy walking down the street for directions. The next thing we knew, he was in the bus with us. He later told us he had just come from church, heard the songs coming from the bus and was for some reason afraid of us. I guess the driver was able to convince him we were not from the loony bin, because he spent the next 10 minutes telling the diver when to turn. We went down dirt roads, back alleys and city streets only to arrive back almost across the street from the gas station where we could have told him he was lost in the first place. When we arrived, the power was on.
Elaine is now awake and as I am writing she is reading. She just shared a verse that almost says God is watching and reflecting as well, and He had fun protecting us so we did not arrive to the hotel while the power was out. Psalm 2o:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. This is also appropriate for the adventure from Lusaka to Livingston, but that is another story.