So here is something doesn’t happen to a person everyday….
Let me go to the beginning of the story….
One of my neighbors called and said that she and our other
neighbor were going for an early evening walk and would I like to join them. I
would love to!
So at 5:30pm I left our house for a quick walk. I needed to
make it quick because I left Elhanan with our helper and she would be going
home at 6pm so I was only going for 30 minutes.
We all met up on our friends’ property, which is on the side
of the Nairobi Game Park, they have even more animals on their property than we
do on ours. We were walking along and suddenly right in front of us was a
beautiful giraffe! I immediately said Thank You Jesus! I was so happy to see
him/her because we haven’t had any giraffe on our side of the road for quite a
few weeks, possible months. I got my phone out so that I could take a picture
and we continued walking…
Until!!!! A HUGE buffalo came charging out of the underbrush
at us with a very loud angry snort!!! I have never been soooooooo scared (well
except for the time that I got shot at by thugs with an AK-47 – but thankfully
that was a long time ago) anyway….he must have been asleep because he was
laying down and when he heard us is when he got up very angry!!! Oh my I
RAN!!!! However, one of my friends’ has pins in her back and she can’t run
(walks great, just can’t run) and my other friend slipped and fell on the
rocks. When I turned to see if the buffalo was chasing us (thank You Jesus, he
wasn’t) I saw my one friend on the ground so I went back for her and our other
friend made it up some steep rocks.
Needless to say…..our hearts were pounding out of our
chests!!!! We had a good laugh and talked about the time the one friends
husband was out on a walk and he and his dogs came within 10 feet of a lion!!!!
On my way home, walking up our driveway, as I was thanking
God for His protection, I saw our resident buffalo laying down in our yard….he
has decided for about the last week or so that he lives on our compound and
hasn’t wanted to travel far from us.
Thank you Jesus!!! What a blessing it is to live here! I
pray that I can shine Your light to our neighbors and that they would see You!
Thank you for praying for our protection and that God would
use us to show His glory and salvation to those He puts in our lives.
Ouch….I gotta go put an ice pack on my feet…I totally
twisted my right foot in my running from a angry buffalo that I woke up
sleep….something I never thought I would hear myself say!!!
In His arms,
Vicky and family
here is our resident buffalo. usually he is fine and doesn't cause any problems, but lately he has been pushing down our fences! oh well, we still love him around...he makes a GREAT watchmen!
