Through my Eyes

After 13 months of serving in Africa, I will be returning home to Canada. It will be a huge time of transition for me as I adjust to living back in Canada and as I start attending university to complete my social services diploma. As I contemplate what going home looks like and my feelings about that, I wrote in my journal my thoughts, my tears, my prayers, my joys, and my laughs from this past season of my life. I wanted to share an excerpt of my thoughts as I begin this next season!  As I begin to think about going home and as I start packing up my life I don't think the fact that I am leaving has hit me yet. Even though I had my big goodbye this morning, I don't think its hit me that in 4 days I will be on my way to Johannesburg - leaving the place that has been home for the last year - and then on to Zambia. I don't think its hit me that in 4 weeks time I will be waking up in my room back in Canada, thousands of kilometr...

If I said that the last few weeks have been only a little bit busy that would be a major underestimate. At the beginning of June, I prayed to my Father that He would give me an adventure in my last two months in Africa; that I would see more of Him. About two weeks later, I found out that I was being given the opportunity to go to Swaziland for three days. Of course, I jumped at the chance to go and see more of the beautiful continent that our amazing Father created. I had one day to work in the office and then I headed straight into the young leaders camp that happened over that weekend. The day after the camp finished, I headed straight to Oshoek to say my goodbyes to my community family, as it as the last time that I will see my family for a significant period of time. Since returning home from those crazy two weeks, I have been busy in the office catching up on work and starting to say 'see you later'  to the individuals that have played such an i...