In welcoming you to my world this week I want to talk about the country I would most like to visit. I have always wanted to visit Brazil and see the Amazon. I have visited many countries in my lifetime, from the northern reaches of the icy, beautiful Scandinavian countries to the southernmost tip of Africa and Australia. I have seen the wonders of Europe; visited France, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands. I have been through the romantic scenery painted by poets and artists of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In the east, I have seen exotic orchids in Singapore and Hong Kong and traveled around Australia. Born in Africa, I have visited most of the countries in Southern Africa. In the west, I now live in the USA and have visited Canada and several states. So, that leaves South America to be discovered.
Some good thoughts here, Deryn. As a matter of interest, there are some amazing fragments of the kingdom of God in a small little-heard-of village in rural Venezuela, alongside the Amazon River in South America. My daughter and son-in-law lived there from some years as missionaries, with our little pre-school grandchildren, and ran a two-teacher school built on ground that had to be claimed from the jungle. They, and others from different missionary societies, had to leave there when their lives came under threat. But I firmly believe the truths they passed on to these uncivilized tribes will live on into eternity.
That is amazing! I would love to go there, did you ever visit her there?
I enjoyed your thoughts on Brazil and the Amazon River. Our daughter and her husband were missionary teachers in nearby Venezuela.
How wonderful for your daughter to have lived there.