OUR STAY AT NARO MORU RIVER LODGE; The gifts God keeps giving..

~ ~It is coming from my heart, praise and thanks unto You Lord. All the things that You have done I'm grateful for Your love, I give You the praise , I'm counting my blessings I just can't keep it to myself when I thought that He had done too much oh oh oh Jesus did it again~ ~

This song by Sinach has been the song in our hearts since we were joined as husband and wife, because God has done a lot for us and when we think that He has done too much, He surprises us again with something else.

I shared here before that we won a honeymoon package and shared our experience, it was exciting and all we could say is thank God, because He is the giver of ALL good things. When we came back from the honeymoon, the manager from Naru Moru River Lodge, called 'bae' and offered us two nights for free and we had the liberty to choose when we would visit!  So we chose to go there to celebrate 'bae's' birthday and I just had to share how awesome this place is and probably get more people to visit the place.

I will explain through pictures, here we goooooo.....

The sign at the reception( so that you get their logo)

We checked in and welcomed by a glass of juice and  shown to our cosy cottage....

The view of the room and the fire place...oooh and my feet

I forgot to mention that we traveled with our bikes and as soon as we were done with lunch we were off to cycle in the high altitude and explore the area....

Bae looking cool....I wanted to rest too so I bought time by taking pics

That is me at the back faking a smile after almost giving up on the cycle

Back at the hotel after the 15km high altitude cycle....(it was tough!)

Evidence of the 15km cycle

We freshened up after the intense cycle and went on to have dinner  and guess what the hotel did? They set us up on a cosy little corner to have a candle lit dinner....Due to lack of pictures of the food, I will just say the meal was top notch!!

My date..:-)

The dinning area...isn't it beautiful

We then retired to our room, since the place got a bit chilly and we had to take advantage of the fire place in our cottage...

The fire man a.k.a bae lit the room and it became a 'lit' night...hehe see what I did there?

For day two, we had planned to go for a day hike at Mt. Kenya and we were  off by 9am to go for this, It would be my first time but for bae, I have lost count of how many times he has been there.

We got into a bit of car trouble and we were not able to do the climb but managed to reach the gate in the evening and see some water bucks. The biggest lesson for us with the experience we had on day two was; we may make our plans but God has the final say, to be honest before we left for this trip we had thought of cancelling the hike and just go cycling due to the financial implication and to add to this, I forgot my hiking boots and my thermal jacket but we still insisted on going for the hike,up until we got the car trouble. 

We took it as a sign of God giving us several opportunities to stop and ask Him what He wanted us to do but we still insisted on our plan and failed to notice He was speaking to us......we were reminded to always rely on Him because we ended up spending much more than we expected and did not get a chance to do anything 'fun' that day....anyway...I will let the pictures speak from here....

We got to the gate of the park (atleast)

Went back to the hotel and explored the area,....

Random selfie in the hotel area

Riding solo on this one

The wall in the challenge course.....what is this one doing?

The 'web' in the challenge course..look! Here he is again

The bonfire area in the hotel

So, that was our stay at Naro Moru River lodge, it is an awesome place for a weekend gateway, team building, etc...we loved it and we thank God for the opportunity to visit the place for FREE!!!...Lol...Indeed God has been good to us.....we look forward to the next adventure....we will be going back to climb the mountain soon......adios!

SELF ACCEPTANCE;Personalities

I have been part of the Bible study fellowship  (BSF) ,  BSF is an in-depth, interdenominational Bible study that helps people know God and equips them to effectively serve the Church throughout the world.(I copy pasted this from their website). I joined in when the study was on the book of John and it was as if I have never read it before, the small details I had just read through before were now the details that made me understand Jesus and His disciples in a whole new way!

So what has BSF have to do with the topic 'Personalities?'....well like I said I got to understand the disciples and their different personalities and how they were used by Christ. 
What made me to want to write about this is? I was in a meeting and the chairperson asked people to share their prayer requests and one lady went like..'I am an introvert and I want you guys to pray for me to change and be different'...well for me that hurt, why? Because the society has somehow made it seem as if it is wrong/boring/inadequate to be an introvert and for me I did not pray for that lady to change but for her to see the beauty of the personality God gave her..because everything God does is well planned and on purpose.....

Sorry, back to the disciples....there are a few characters that stood out for me in the book of John, and this is why....


#1 Peter
So this guy was impulsive! When the people came to arrest Jesus, he took out his sword and cut a soldier's ear without even thinking twice about it....(John 18:10)
He was quick to tell Jesus that he would lay down his life for him when Jesus asked him if he loved him even without thinking about his statement and Jesus told Him that He would deny Him..(John 13:36-38)
When they heard that Jesus resurrected, he ran to the tomb with John and he was the first to go in as John paused outside the tomb...( John 20)
When Jesus appeared to the disciples as they were fishing,and John told Him that it was indeed Jesus, he swam to the shore and left the other disciples in the boat...(I found this funny as they got to the shore around the same time)....(John 21:1-14)

He clearly never thought through his actions and I found it hilarious because he reminded me of myself and how that quality has gotten me into trouble a few times..okay..alot of times.

At the end of the book, we see Jesus reinstating  him and asking him to feed and take care of His sheep, and we see of the great things he did after this in the book of Acts and how he died for the gospel.

#2 Thomas

He was the cautious guy, the one who had to take calculated risks...

When Lazarus died and Jesus told His disciples that they will go back to Judea, they were all afraid because, the people there had already tried to kill him but when Jesus insisted that they should go back and somehow assured them they will be fine, Thomas told the other disciples that..'Let us go so that we may die with Him'....it was like Jesus never said anything, He still believed they would die because there was no proof that they would be okay....

After Jesus resurrected, He appeared to His disciples and Thomas was not present, so when they told Him that they had seen Jesus, he did not believe them and said that unless he would see His wounds then he would believe,,,,and indeed Jesus showed them to Him and He believed...

For Thomas, seeing was believing and he needed proof of things before he would make his move......despite Him doubting that Jesus rose from the dead even after Jesus had told them that He would, Jesus did not condemn Him but gave him the exact proof he had asked for inorder to assure Him that He is alive....

These two men had two very different personalities, probably you would say, Peter was an extrovert while Thomas was an introvert. 

Thing is, Jesus knew this about them even before He chose them to be His disciples because He knew they possess different strengths and weaknesses. Thomas was unlikely to get into trouble while Peter was very likely to get into trouble and they both had their moments where their personalities 'failed' them as disciples but Jesus showed grace to them.

Truth is, the personality God has given you, makes you have certain weaknesses and strengths that are placed in you on purpose and especially for the purpose of serving Him. So whether extroverted/introverted, you are magnificently designed by God to fulfill a specific purpose on this earth.

You are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made...