to end the year on....

so my colleague at work just got back from south africa and had this great story to share. this woman denise works at the company we are partnering with. denise lives in a nice home in a rural area in the hills, about an hour out of town. every week day as she drives to the city, she passes a tribal village area. she would see the little village kids, ages 7 to 12, out on the road walking to their school about 3 miles from their village. she picked up a child one day, and after dropping him off at the school, she noticed he had left a sack in her car. she drove back to give it to him, and he was standing on the side of the road with a panicked look on his face. she handed him his sack, and he hurried and opened it to make sure his stuff was still in it. it was; but it turns out the only thing he had in the sack was a 5 or 6 inch bread crust. he was worried that denise might have stolen it from him.

the next day, she picked up that boy and his brother. she asked the brother what he had in his sack, and he showed her. for lunch he had brought a little glob of lard. that night, she started making peanut butter sandwiches and giving them to the brothers when she picked them up for their ride to school. word spread about the sandwich/taxi lady, and she now picks up 14 little kids, gives them each a sandwich for their lunch that she and her husband prepare each night for them, and drives them the 3 miles to school. she says she has no idea how they all seem to smash themselves into her honda CRV, but somehow they make it work.

happy new year. and peace.