{"id":14224,"date":"2015-06-10T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/10\/lafrique\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:24:07","slug":"lafrique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2015\/06\/10\/lafrique\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Afrique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I woke up and my heart beats for Africa. I saw a picture and the yearning burned deep. <i>I want to go, Lord.&nbsp;<\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/img_4085.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/img_4085.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe titles don&#8217;t scare me as much today. This one was about Ebola continuing. I&#8217;m not careless. Or fearless. <i>But I still want to go, Lord.<\/i><br \/>\nAfter spending a few days with the cousins, it hit me that soon this luxury of closeness would be gone. <i>But I still want to go, Lord.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This application has been killing me. 400 character box after 400 character box has dragged on as I&#8217;ve keyed in my doctrinal beliefs in what feels like a never ending document. <i>Yes, Lord, I still want to go.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m packing us up again. How much stuff can four kids possibly need?! We&#8217;re joining the youth group on the missions trip for 3 nights and four days. We&#8217;ll be shooting from the hip to get the opportunity to serve with them &#8211; with my 11 month hitchhiker and all. It&#8217;s not going to be easy, but it&#8217;ll be an adventure. <i>And it makes me hungry to go, Lord.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I feel You priming my heart, Lord. L&#8217;Afrique. Beautiful, dry scorching Africa. It&#8217;s worth it. We&#8217;ve counted the cost. In Your timing. In Your way. J&#8217;adore L&#8217;Afrique, mon Dieu. Mon coeur br\u00fble en moi pour L&#8217;Afrique. Envoyez-moi, mon Seigneur. Envoyez-nous.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>(I love Africa, my God. My heart burns within me for Africa. Send me, my Lord. Send us.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I woke up and my heart beats for Africa. I saw a picture and the yearning burned deep. I want to go, Lord.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The titles don&#8217;t scare me as much today. This one was about Ebola continuing. I&#8217;m not careless. Or fearless. But I still want to go, Lord. After spending a&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2015\/06\/10\/lafrique\/#more-14224\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}