Deuteronomy 10:17a. "For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes."
More from Ben Tasevski: To this day, the story I share most of my time in Malawi was when I took a group of Canadian university students on a tour of the villages surrounding Liwonde in Southern Malawi. The experience involved pairing each young person with a field staff member working in the villages. This was a trip “back in time” to when the most advanced forms of technology were the metal of a hoe, the mechanics of a bike and battery-operated radios. There was no electricity. No one had a mobile phone. The houses were mud floors and thatched roofs. I always felt I was travelling a century back in time when I went to visit the villages.
I clearly remember dropping off one of the last students. I remember the sudden terror on her face as the doors of the vehicle I was driving closed. The sudden realization that she would be all “alone”, by herself in the ‘middle of nowhere’. All the familiarity of her life gone and only a field staff member as an anchor.
It was a transformational experience. When I came back for this same young woman I left in terror only about an hour early, I found her smiling and happy. She had seemingly become a part of the community. She was singing with the women and participating in the community gathering.
