5 days ago as I was getting ready to go to sleep, I made a pit stop in the bathroom and quickly realized that it wasn’t going to be just a pit stop. I spent the next few hours in and out of the bathroom and praying for my stomach to stop hurting and to feel normal again. The next day my teammate, Angela, and I went to the clinic down the road. They asked a lot of questions and took some blood. After about two hours the doctor called me back in and told me that I had a virus and a bacteria and then handed me a prescription for three different medicines. She told me that the medicine would make me drowsy and that I would need to be sure to take all of it. I don’t know about you but when I am sick the only place that I want to be is home. So as the day went on I began to get really tired and hot and found myself thinking about home a lot. I told my team at team time that I had really been missing home and that it was probably linked to me being sick. Over the next few days I began to feel better. Then this morning at 5:30am I woke up, sweating, and knew that I needed to make it to the bathroom very quickly. Today has just not been a very good day, I spent all day laying on my sleeping pad, praying for it to snow in Africa, thinking about and missing home…
At Home:
When I am sick my mom makes me chicken noodle soup, my dad brings home Ginger ale and a good movie, and I make one phone call to my grandma, Lollie, she calls me back within 10 minutes telling me everything that I need to do to feel better.
I can stop in at Griffin’s Drycleaners anytime to have a heart to heart with my dad followed by lots of laughs and good conversation with my older brother.
I can sit at my desk editing pictures only to be surprised by my baby brother who tells me that he is taking me on a date to Starbucks.
I can come home and lay on the couch with my head on my moms lap and talk about all the things that God is teaching me and how our days were.
I lay in my bed at night and just as I close my eyes my little sister comes in and asks if she can come get in the bed with me.
I have air conditioning
I have my own bathroom
I have my own room
I have a fan
I have a bed with awesome covers and pillows
Today I missed all of these things very much! But today I was reminded that I surrendered all of those things for 11 months. I laid down my family and my comfortable things to learn more about my Father and to spread Him throughout the world. Today I was reminded that God is my Protector, my Healer, my Comforter, my Father, my Friend. Today I was reminded that the safest place for me to be is always where God has called me to be. Today I learned that the closet I will ever be to my real home is right where He has told me to be. Today I was encouraged and reminded that this, Mozambique, is right where He wants me. So today I will be joyful and I will be at home with Him.
