Well Well Well..........

Well my time is quickly quickly coming to a pause here in Uganda. I will be heading home on Sunday night to be home for a while with my wonderful family and friends!
I am so excited and heart broken at the same time. It's going to be hard to say goodbye to these kids and to all of the beautiful people I have met here. I hate goodbyes and everything about them.
But the awesome thing is that I can tell them all with confidence that I will be back soon!
For those of you who don't know I have been offered the position as adoption coordinator for Ekisa.
After I go home for awhile to hang out, love on people, and raise funds, I will be heading back to Uganda!
I came here just praying for direction...seeking what God would have for me next.
I truly had a blank sheet in front of me, praying about what would be written next in my book. But amidst this, just trying to live and be right where I'm at.
Then one morning after I just felt a press on my heart to come back here and serve, I was asked to come back and coordinate their adoptions.
Humbled.
Blown-away.
Excited.
Scared.
Well, those words just don't do my emotions justice :)
But through lots of prayer and seeking, I am so sure that this is what the Lord has for me next. He allotted this time for me to be in Uganda serving and helping getting these children home to forever families.
I can't even describe the joy that's in my heart for being able to be a part of these children's lives.
Yeah, it's humbling.
SO with that said, I would like to ask for prayers.
Prayers of comfort as I leave a place that I have grown to love and people who now feel like family.
Prayers of safety and clarity as I travel. And for the people I come into contact with, airports are FULL of people who just need some love or evidence that joy exists.
Prayers that the funds will be brought in when I'm home.
Prayers over this house! And for these children and everyone running the house.

I've met some beautiful people while I've been here. People who are now forever friends, sisters and brothers.
I've been able to witness some stunning redemption.
I've been able to see Jesus work and soften hearts towards His voice.
I've seen joy,
hurt,
I've felt the sting of death,
and seen the joy of new life.
I've changed endless diapers,
had endless kisses,
and lost endless sleep.
I've danced a lot and now forever will have the song Waka Waka stuck in my head.
I've learned how to inject medicine through IVs and had to fight for a little life at a hospital alone, learning what true dependency on Christ looks like.
I've been in charge of a house of 16 kids.
I've seen the beauty of friends lives that are completely surrendered to the will of the Father in their lives.
I've grown up and learned a lot.
Been wrecked of my own ignorance,
and been overwhelmed by unending grace.
I've learned some native dancing, and been inspired to sing loudly all of the time with joy in my heart!
I've bunjee jumped.
I've seen and felt the Holy Spirit move and prompt heart, my own included.
I've experienced the stunning stars, sunrises, and clouds that Africa has to offer.
I've ridden motorcycles for the past months as my mode of transportation.
I've bunked in a room with six other girls.
I've prayed hard like I've never prayed before, learning more and more what it means to cry out.
I've been peed on lots and spit up on.....lots.
I've gone to a Ugandan aerobics class.
I've laughed a lot.
Cried a lot.
And learned a whole lot.

So at the end of this time, my first time in Uganda, I'm just overwhelmed and blown away.
Blown away by all I've had to learn.
Jesus knew my heart needed a little working on.
And just overwhelmed by the beauty of God ALL OVER the world.
He is not bound by oceans or state lines.
He just is. All around.
The world is a whole lot bigger than the little we see around us on a daily basis.
And it's just pretty cool, a huge blessing in fact, to get a glimpse of other parts of the world.

God. Is. Big.

So I will end this post until further posts when I return home with a saying I've said quite a lot, lately.
Well, TIA.
This. Is. Africa.

²⁴ “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. ²⁵ And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. ²⁶ From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. ²⁷ God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ²⁸ ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’
Acts 17