Goodbye Africa!

 

        I want to thank everyone who has been praying for my safety this year and especially during this past month. As you may know there was a terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya on Sept 21-24th. It took place in the main shopping center and sadly 67 people were killed. Kenya is a wonderful place full of beautiful people. The church, our neighbors, and all of my new friends have become family to me. It was incredibly hard saying goodbye to the people I have come to love with this kind of turmoil taking place. Kenya needs our continued prayers. My team and I left on Sept 29th and as our plane left the ground I waved goodbye to Africa for the year. We are all safe and doing well, thanks to God. One of my teammates told me as we left  "You did good this month." And I asked her why. She said "If your heart isn't breaking at the end of each month, you didn't love hard enough." My heart is definitely broken and it feels like a little piece has been torn off and still in Africa. Why do I keep putting myself through the heartache of falling in love and then saying goodbye every 30 days? Every 30 days…ugh. Every 30 days I experience a month better than the last, but this process of saying hello and saying goodbye gets harder and harder. And yet again today is the start of another 30 days. We just arrived in Nepal. Another new start, another new story, with new people, new relationships and the renewing love of Christ. O yeah that's why I keep doing this, because Christ first did it for me. So although, I grieve for Africa and will miss it terribly I look forward to what awaits this month in Nepal, for I am blessed. Blessed to have thirty more amazing days filled with His hope, His Truth and much much more of His love.