HAPPINESS IS........

1.  Not having your garments stick to your skin at the end of the day!
2.  Having one of the African Elders say thank you!
3.  Watching the little African children play!
4.  Not finding any bugs in our running shoes before our morning walk!
5.  Living in Sunyani instead of Accra or Kumasi!
6.  Watching Elder Thayne's face light up and his entire attitude change as soon as his boy David finishes cleaning his car!
7.  Listening to the rain fall on our tin roof!
8.  Having the wind blow the charcoal lady's smoke away from our house instead of toward it!
9.  Listening to President Owusu laugh!
10. Going even one day without the power failing!
11. A sweet, ripe Ghanaian pineapple!
12. Dora, the egg lady, bringing us eggs!
13. Driving into town and just once, not seeing anyone going to the bathroom on the side of the road!
14. Not having to wash EVERYTHING that comes into the house in clorox!
15. Not sharing our bathroom with bugs!
16. Talking with our grandkids on the phone!
17. Watching the goats play "King of the Hill" on dirt piles, logs, fences or anything they can climb up on!
18. Watching Elder Thayne rediscover his amazing artistic talents!
19. Driving all the way to, around, and back from Accra and then through Kumasi without a single scrape or fender-bender! (a MIRACLE in itself!)
20. Having healthy, happy, and exhausted Elders!
21. Watching every baptism and feeling that incredible spirit as they emerge from the water!

and.................

Going to bed every night knowing that perhaps today, we might have made a small difference for the better in some African person's life!