Our Two Weeks of February in PNG Adventure: "A Voice-Picture!"

PNG provides us with many new experiences: 

Dan had two taxi's breakdown as he traveled yesterday. 

I spoke with a 14 year old girl who had a girl in her high school dorm practicing witchcraft and putting spells on people.  (Some girls were sick, or numb and couldn't move, and everyone was scared.  The trouble-maker was expelled.)

We recently spoke to a taxi driver who had 28 children. (!)  Of course there were several mothers involved.  This driver was about our age.  He said he recently married a widow and now has a 9 mo. old baby by her.


My favorite experience, though, is listening to the voice of a godly PNG man.  Some men here have unusually rich, deep voices.  George Puipui had a voice like that...a voice like James Earl Jones...or the "Un-cola nut" man from the American commercial of long ago.  When these men quietly pray, or sing, it does something to my spirit.  It's like hearing a lion purr...rich, powerful, sincere, deep.  It seems to echo right through me.  It makes my spirit feel like a frivolous butterfly, and I long for more depth.

These rich voices remind me of what God is like.  "Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!"  (Rom. 11:33)