Cameras and Blessings

Kids in Kenya loved my camera. Usually, I had to point and shoot quickly if I saw a picture I wanted to capture, because if I paused, I would have 20 kids with their noses two inches from my lens!

Without any mirrors available, many of the kids were seeing themselves for the first time as I would turn the digital camera around so they could see the picture I just took.

Can you imagine not knowing what you look like? Most of the children would laugh and say the names of the others that they would recognize--and then I would point at their image and say, "That's you!!!" They would respond with a laugh--and many times a shy, embarrassed hiding of their face!

The biggest treat for the kids was having the opportunity to take a picture. I would carefully place the strap around their neck--and usually the first, older child that I had given the instructions to would relay the information to the others--"Look in here--Press this button."

I just take so many things for granted--for example mirrors. I am not sure how many times a day I look into one, and cameras. I am so very thankful that I had one so I can share my pictures with all of you. Not to mention the blessing of this computer to publish my experiences so easily and quickly.

Those items are so superficial when comparing them with my three meals a day--plus snacks, clean water that comes out of a faucet and doesn't need to be carried in a bucket on my head, clean clothes, warm roof over my head, transportation, shoes for my feet, health care for my family, etc. I really could go on and on--maybe one of these posts I will do that.

My eyes have been opened... I just hope they stay opened to all the blessings I have.

See if you can find me in each of these pictures, taken by some budding photographers. It's my little version of "Where's Waldo?"