I'm back

It's been three months since I have posted a blog. Three months! A lot has happened in those months. My silence was mostly due to some, ehemm... technical difficulties (which included a computer and a bucket of water. note to self-- computers can not swim) as well as laziness on my part. Where do you start again to get caught up after all that time has past? I've been thinking about needing to post something again, even just to update people on where I am in the world (here's a hint-- I've been going to Target a lot!). Then I received this text from a friend which reminded me of the importance of what I do here.

"I was looking at your blog today and thinking how beautiful Africa is and how very real. Real people, with real needs. I am so glad you are my friend because you are so amazing... but also to bring perspective back to my view. Sometimes I need to be reminded there are those who have so much less than I do and yet are happy to worship God dancing in a muddy dirt street and more free than most sitting in a church singing a hymn they don't really understand. God is so very close and real where he is needed most. thanks for being His hands and feet. " (Thank you dear, sweet Nora.)

It's so much more than me, and I have the honor of using this space to communicate what God is doing in the 'real' world. So, here is my first step back towards sharing beautiful Africa, and the 'real'-ness of my life in Liberia. It is not mine, it is His. It is ours.

This was taken in August,  just before I left Liberia for some R&R in the states.
Some precious, goofy time with amazing girls.