MIRACLES STILL HAPPEN!! I spent my 26th Birthday in Cambodia. As in Thailand, Birthdays are a time when you give, not receive. So I made a Birthday cake. Sounds like an easy task – but remember I’m in Cambodia were ovens are not widely available. So can one not bake a cake – no one can – but one must use a ‘black box’ the name says it all really. It is a black box made of some kind of metal, it is quite light, and you place it over the gas stove. Very important to have a gas stove as the electricity often goes off, and we were staying in the capital city!! (but that’s a story for another day!!!)
So who was this master piece of a cake for? For most of the time we were in Cambodia we lived at a hostel for factory girls, half Christian half not. So when they came back from work we had a party – lots of silly balloon games, cake, snacks, and noodles. It is common in this culture to give a present on your Birthday so I gave them a key ring which I then used to tell the story of my life. The girls (Paa and Lee) did a skit about how there can be more to life than eating, sleeping and working. Life is hard for these girls there isn’t much more to life than eating, sleeping, and working, it is my prayer that these girls can know God’s peace in the hardship of life in Cambodia.
So does the black box work – looking at the picture – you might have your doubts I most certainly have!! But it worked – Praise God and it was actually quite yummy, but that’s maybe because I’m quite chocolate deprived at the moment so anything with a chocolate flavour tastes good!!! :)