Adjusting Back
Well our team made it back home from Uganda last Thursday. If you haven’t seen the photo album yet from this trip you can check it out here. It’s been a great few days to just be with Leslie and the kids again. Right now they are all napping so I’m catching up on a mass of email and other stuff.
It’s been interesting to adjust back to this timezone. We got back around 4pm on Thursday but my body was thinking it was midnight. So I’ve been working out the kinks to get back to CST. It’s a little akward…tired in the afternoons and waking up in the middle of the night.
But in the same way my body has been adjusting, I feel like there is some internal heart adjusting that’s going on as well. I keep thinking about what my friends over there are doing…working in their gardens; collecting eggs to hopefully sell at the market; working on a meal for later on; carrying water a few times a day up from the run off well; more digging for the footings & foundation of the church walls. My heart really breaks for the people in Buloba. There is so much work to be done there.
Then I think what would it be like for these people to be with me here and go where I have been in the last two days…Target; Winn Dixie; downtown Auburn; McDonald’s (Happy meal for the kids); my kitchen with dishwasher and refrigerator (which actually makes ice). It is really doing a number on me that I can’t fully explain. At the grocery store yesterday I was overcome with a paradox of feelings. I feel so grateful but at the same time I’m conflicted with the mass of consumerism, material possessions, and opportunity for instant gratification that we live with. It is so easy for us to get caught up in our little world and not realize the strife that a majority of people in this world deal with. This reminds me of something I wrote about a number of years ago when I went to a Hunger Banquet (read about it here).
So this is just where I am. If you’ve been to a third world country you’ll know what I’m talking about.
God is good all the time.
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