LIKE A BIRD ON THE BRANCH

On  the way back From Sanya Juu where we left Sr. Emily, Fr Thedeus decided to take a little more adventurous  road back home. The road at first seem better than the usual washboard with udulating contours and challenging ruts mixed with pedestrians goats cattle and parked on the road cars. The road was as a matter of fact just the oppiosite. There was no one else on the road. As we progressed it became what Fr called a cattle road. Their were big bumps, ruts, stream beds challenges even for a cow. We saw a house and stopped to ask directions. A woman came to the door and recognized Father because she was a member of the local Catholic community where he goes at time to celebrate Mass. Another woman came  who was holding a 3yr old child who when he saw me started screaming hysterically as if I was the devil himself. We all started laughing about as hard as he was crying. I felt sorry for him but the mother calmed him down and Fr went over to help. When father reached out his arm to him he grabbed it like a drowning man to a floating log We got some directions and as we were leaving he waved at Fr.  And then waved to me. I was again a racial anomaly but so pleased with that little boy waving at me. After putting on the four wheel drive we made it out what only approaches what may be called a drive way we headed down the cow path shake , rattle and rolling past mostly wilderness with an occasional house or shack with a candle shining from inside. I was amazed that people could live in such wilderness with no running water, except what they can carrying on their head from who knows how far, no electric next to nothing. We passed a Maasai boma or coral with thatched shelters shaped like pieces of tootsie roll on end.  They are inside the coral which is formed by piled up thorn branches that would keep any enemy away, but are to keep the cows in. As nightfall was beginning I wondered what they do in the near darkness until bed time. I could only pass with a sense of awe. It reminds me of a bird on a branch in the middle of nowhere, the Lord takes care of them and so He takes care of His people. And I ride by in a four wheel drive with a sense of awe.