Re: Reoccurring Events

Dear Kayle,

I stumbled on your blog when I was looking up a few people whose names I could remember from Groombrige in Harare (Helene Brand - Stambolie)....A lot of thoughts ran through my mind reading your blog everything from amazement at your dedication to your beliefs, at your sacrifice for what you are doing to hoping that you and your family survive your journey and get out unscathed.

Some of what you wrote also worried me enough that I felt it compelled to leave a note with another view so please forgive the intrusion of a complete stranger... I am under the philosophy that life is a gift and that one is obligated to protect and cherish it, this includes your own. I can understand your striving to break from material desires and can accept your self sacrifice for your faith but I don't think this needs to be at the expense of life or limb. So while you look to trust in your security, I would say that God helps those who help themselves, so look after your own security too. In my world you have an obligation to the gift of life that you were given in yourself and to the life that you were entrusted in your baby (and a very cute baby by the way:-). You can do more good in this world alive than dead.

From another corner of the globe, I wish you and yours well.


p.s. do tell helene hello if she is still around.

Re: Reoccurring Events

Dear Kayle,

I stumbled on your blog when I was looking up a few people whose names I could remember from Groombridge in Harare (Helene Brand - Stambolie)....A lot of thoughts ran through my mind reading your blog everything from amazement at your dedication to your beliefs, at your sacrifice for what you are doing to hoping that you and your family survive your journey and get out unscathed.

Some of what you wrote also worried me enough that I felt it compelled to leave a note with another view so please forgive the intrusion of a complete stranger... I am under the philosophy that life is a gift and that one is obligated to protect and cherish it, this includes your own. I can understand your striving to break from material desires and can accept your self sacrifice for your faith but I don't think this needs to be at the expense of life or limb. So while you look to trust in your security, I would say that God helps those who help themselves, so look after your own security too. In my world you have an obligation to the gift of life that you were given in yourself and to the life that you were entrusted in your baby (and a very cute baby by the way:-). You can do more good in this world alive than dead.

From another corner of the globe, I wish you and yours well.


p.s. do tell helene hello if she is still around.

Re: Reoccurring Events

Thanks so much, Alex, for reading our blog and for your comments! Yes, you are right on many things! It is a question we have asked ourselves and continue to ask--do we stay or go? Certainly if things got REALLY bad here (civil war or something like that), we'd certainly go! It is hard to make decisions, though, when things aren't at that dire stage yet where the answer is obvious. We still think at this point, it is worthwhile for us to stay here and continue doing what we're doing (which, by the way, we work with John Stambolie, Helene's husband, at the theological college where we teach! Small world!). But of course that decision may have to be re-evaluated later down the line. Cheers!

Kayle