One of the great things about travelling is it gives me lots of time to read. One of the books I read on this trip was, "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat," by John Ortberg. It impacted me through the "Bob Challenge."
In the book, he tells a story about a guy named Bob who was basically dared to pray for something specific every day for six months. In fact, they made a bet about it. If nothing happened Bob would get $500, but if it did, he'd have to pay $500.
He chose to pray for Kenya. For a long time nothing happened, but then one night at a dinner he met a lady from the largest orphanage in Kenya. He began asking her lots of questions about Kenya and she invited him to visit. He went, was moved by the poverty and came home and arranged for prescription drugs to be sent there worth one million dollars.
The orphanage invited him back to celebrate. While he was there, he met the president of Kenya, who ended up taking Bob on a tour of Nairobi. While on the tour Bob saw a prison full of political prisoners. Bob told the president he should let them go. Sometime later the US state department called to thank Bob as they'd been working for a long time to get those prisoners released.
Several months later the President of Kenya called and asked Bob to come pray for him for three days while he selected his government.
After telling this story, the author challenged me to take the Bob Challenge. He didn't say he'd give me $500, but he said if I pray for every day for six months for something and don't get it he'll give me back the price of the book. If I pray every day for six months and something happens, I have to write him an email and tell him about it. I'm looking forward to writing that email.
Yes that's a bat Trish is holding. It's a fruit bat, but at night when it swoops over your head, you'd swear it was a pterodactyl or a vampire bat. 
