Tanzania,2025

Darlings,

I am boarding my first plane of several on my way to Tanzania, East Africa with Zoehopeglobal.com. Come along with me. I’ll be writing every day and posting when I am able.

This is a note I sent to a struggling friend, who has inspired me with her beauty as you also do:

Have you ever considered that you create beauty within others by simply being beautiful?

I believe that God wants to create beauty in each of us. This beauty truly begins with belief and continues our whole lives.

The beauty He calls us to is too great for our finite minds, so He creates it a little bit at a time with each day we encounter. He woos us to enter His beauty right where we are with the bag of troubles we have on our laps, and He promises to redeem all of it. He uses all that this world throws at us to make room within us so that His beauty can live there.

As Ephesians 3:14 tells us, He strengthens us in our inner beings through the power of His Holy Spirit so that Jesus can live at home in our hearts. And we will have been so enlarged by His work that we will be able to take in all the beauty that He is. It is then when His work within us is done, that we will live at home in His heart in heaven.

Even now, He is using your story to enlarge mine so that one day, I will be able to grasp how high, deep, wide, and long is the love of Jesus for me, us.  (Ephesians 3:18-19)

How marvelous that He is creating beauty in me because you have chosen to be beautiful in Him.

You are a gift.

Thank you, dear friend.

TanzaniAnne

March 2, 2025