Home!

I finally made it home...DONE with finals!! DONE with my Junior year! What a great year it has been, too! I am praying that my grades come back good so that I am blessed with keeping my scholarship another year!! It's my LAST year...I am gonna be a SENIOR!! I feel like it was just yesterday that I graduated high school! I love my home. I love my town and the people here...even if I am related to half of the people here and the other half know ALL your business even if you don't want them to. My town is SO close...we take care of each other...we LOVE each other...and we know how to be strong. I love knowing that I can be supported here no matter what. I know that they are PROUD of me...REALLY proud of me...and who I am and what I am doing. No matter where I go...this place will ALWAYS be home. I love the connection I have with my old teachers...parents of my friends...and the lady at the bank and grocery store. I love that I can call my best friends from school...after not talking for weeks..pick up right where we left off...and talk for HOURS! I LOVE the community in which I have been raised and can ALWAYS come home to.
It makes me start to wonder about the community that I am going to experience in Kampala. I wonder if these people have parents to go home to when they are gone for a long time. I wonder if the people in their town know all their business...or if their people support them, have their back no matter what, and love on each other in hard times.
I cannot imagine NOT having this in my life. This community and love.
This is what I want to do for this town...I want and need to bring this community together. Combine them in love,trust,honesty, and compassion for one another. I want this church to reach out and make their people feel like my people do in a town of 1,312 in Arkansas.
I know that I cant do this on my own...but I can influence these people. And I feel that if one life is influenced in such a way...SO many more can be influenced in so many other ways!! One life is all I want to touch..one...in SOME way...
I may never know or see how I have touched these people...but that's okay...I don't think that is the way it has to be. God sees it...He is planning and preparing it now in advance for me!
Keep praying for our trip...which by the way...is SIX DAYS away!
Pray for our eyes to be opened..
our hearts to be available...
our ears to be open...
our arms to spread from east to west...
our minds to be cleared...
our joy to be overflowing...
our lives to be changed FOREVER...
to make the people of Kampala...a people of God's love.