Our eight-year old granddaughter, Emily, called excitedly to tell me about a site she had found on a computer. She is an outdoorsman and nature lover through and through. She told me a bit about what she had just seen and then TOLD ME to go to our computer because she was going to tell me how to find the site. I think she could have done it but Mother gave a bit of help so I could quickly pull it up. It is Africam.com from Nkorho Pan somewhere in Africa. It is a live black and white camera scanning a watering hole near the bush. There is a seven-hour time differential but they have lights for nighttime. To some of you this would be terribly boring. You can watch for hours and see nothing. Turn your sound on and you can hear the sounds of the bush. I was watching and a herd of zebras came to drink. There were about thirty. A wart-hog walked through the background. Some nervous deer-like animals came, always eyeing the surroundings. Two giraffes wandered up. It was interesting to see the contortions they went through to get their heads down to the water. I am anxious, of course, to see a lion or leopard or whatever! Emily has seen a pack of hyenas!
It is amazing that the sights and sounds of Africa are so near. Of course the sights and sounds of the world are also close. We can see them but they can't see us. We can hear their calls and cries but they cannot hear ours. We can reach out a hand to help them in distress but it doesn't reach from our living rooms. We can pray for them but they don't hear. God does! What a tiny globe we live on. It has shrunk to the size of the one I remember on my teacher's desk in grade school. We are to go into that world and share the good news of Christ to everyone. What a challenge! What a task! But if a watering hole from Africa can ripple on my computer, is it not possible to reverse the communication? I think so.
