Category: Africa
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Uganda 2014: The end is just the beginning
“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.” ~Anne Lamott When I originally started writing this I was sitting on the balcony of my lodge room, overlooking the Nile River in Uganda. My view was beautiful, the warm air comforting, and the sounds coming from the African forest…
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Uganda 2014: Love shows up
It’s a love story that began long ago. One that will go on long after I am here to write about it. Rising from the Ugandan dust. . . An orphanage grew. Seemingly overnight. That doesn’t just happen. Orphanages don’t just appear. But this one did. Beauty from the ashes. . . An orphanage born…
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Uganda 2014
As I write this, I feel like I should be pinching myself. I’m going to Uganda for the second time in one year? What? I know. I feel like the luckiest girl alive at the moment. I could never thank the people that have made this trip possible for me enough. I don’t have the…
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All things Africa: Our day at the Michelle and Julia Hoffman Memorial Children’s Home
If you would have asked me at that moment if I thought that this was real life I would have told you NO and meant it. If you would have asked me at that same moment if it is possible to feel your heart breaking and mending at the same time I would have shouted…
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All things Africa: Part two, the foreward
Driving down the long stretch of road from the airport to our first destination in Jinja, Uganda I suddenly felt my soul stir. The sites, sounds, and smells of Africa were new to me–the roadside shops, the dusty air, the ever-present aroma of fires, the roosters perpetually crowing— yet, eerily, I already knew them. A part…