Ask and ye shall receive

Remember this post I wrote last September? Well, in the time since I wrote down my Christmas list I have gotten five of my six wishes. Imagine! If you would have told me the results of my list four months ago I'd never have believed you. Here's the wishes that have been fulfilled and how long after I posted the blog I received them:

• #4. Warm water for my showers - electrician came to fix the heater a week and a half later
• #3. Books - found large supply at the Cradle of Love apartment a 30-second walk from my cottage mere days later and discovered a fairly good bookstore in Arusha a month and a half later
• #2. A safari trip - went on one with three other volunteers three weeks later and another this month
• #1b. To see my family - traveled to Cairo, Egypt during Christmas to visit Bryn nearly three months later
• #1a. To see Jonathan - he randomly and very surprisingly showed up in my office three and a half months later

I am so blessed. Jonathan surprised me by traveling all the way from snowy Maine to burning Tanzania for two weeks. We went on a two-day safari before he whisked me off on a trip to the coast and Pemba Island in the Indian Ocean. And there he proposed! So, in four more months wish #1a will again be granted and I'll get to see Jonathan again. And at a yet-undecided date this summer I'll be privileged enough to be able to see him for as many years to come as God sees fit to give us together. I'm hoping it's decades!

(Because of the five granted wishes, I'm almost wondering when wish #5, the trampoline, will arrive :)