Joy upon joy

This week we have a visitor on campus, Dr. Angus Cricthton, who administers the book program in the UK that sends books to our first year students.  While it's a pleasure to meet someone with whom I communicate on email, the real joy is sitting in on the interviews he's conducting with students about the impact of the book program.

In these interviews, I have learned more about my students than I have in being with them for two semesters.  One has written a book on premarital counseling with her husband, and they use it in their diocese with couples.  Another was renamed during the insurrection in his area in the 90s; he was a baby, and there was fighting. The rebels took him, carried him for four kilometers, then inexplicably left him in the road.  One of his aunts had been following behind, and saved him.  The bishop renamed him Moses (and he was reunited with his family). 

I always learn from my discussions with my students, but listening to these interviews completely humbles me.  I am in awe of what The Lord is doing in them, and that I get to be a part of their lives.