Motorcycle Diaries-Cabot's Entry
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Recently, I was in the Democratic Republic of Congo, traveling from Tomgala to Gemena, with Dr. Tom Cairns on a motorcycle. In Congo, you either travel by truck or motorcycle to get somewhere.
We were about half way to Gemena, when some animals ran out in front of us. We went down on the motorcycle, going about 40 mph. I knew something was wrong. Turns out I had broken my shoulder, and found out later that I had broken the bone in multiple places.
Some villagers helped to move the bike off of me, and I was going in and out of consciousness. They took me into a mud hut, and Dr. Cairns went to look for some kind of help.
Just a minute or so later, a doctor came from the direction of Gemena on a motorcycle. And just shortly after that, a truck load of nurses came from the direction of Tongala. It was just an incredible thing.
This truck load of nurses ended up taking me into Gemena and dropping me off in front of the President of the Evangelical Free Church of Congo. I was just giving thanks the whole way there—that God allowed me to fall and be broken, and then pick me up.
We often times think of ourselves as senders, “I’m going, and being sent over there.” In reality, I became the person needing care; there is an interdependence there—it was good for the people to offer me care, and I needed care.
When I was leaving, the President gave me a carving—it was of a blind man carrying a lame man; it was a picture of the two churches working together.
