Welcome Back

If you're reading this you may have heard, I am returning to Mozambique. Welcome back to walking this journey with me. Please excuse my misuse of the comma and my elementary spelling errors. Please display grace as you join me as I trek through life. If you care to follow my experiences please bear with me as I pose my questions, as I pondering to make sense of life and as I share my struggles.
It doesn't seem possible that it’s been 2 years since Laura and I were spending hours sitting around discussing what our passions were. At that time I didn't feel like I had a true passion. I remembered having passions as a child. I used to be passionate about running. But I didn't feel I had a real passion that mattered or that was really worth nurturing and living for.
Over the course of the last two years thing have become more clear. I have a passion. A passion that is leading me back to Mozambique. I am passionate for things that I believe have been nurtured within me as I have sought after the Lord. This passion has brought me to a place where I can't NOT return to Mozambique. Those of you who have been close to me over the last year have continued to remind me and encourage me that yes, this is the call God has on my life for "such a time as this.” This passion includes not being able to settle into my American life knowing there are hundreds of thousands of orphaned children struggling to make it on my own. Yes, the masses are overwhelming but the calling on my heart and the hope for the one are too powerful to ignore. God is passionate about the poor and because He is, so must I be.

For the next 2 weeks I’ll be preparing for this departure. I have finished work and am now visiting, enjoying and doing all I can to ready myself for a very unknown future. I go confidently knowing this is the time and in faith trusting in all that is to come.

I had the opportunity to go to a banquet for Master’s Heart Ministries where Carlos spoke last weekend. After an inspiring evening and the heart of God being shared I said to one of the organizers, “thanks for a great night. It was perfect.”  And his humble response was, “Well, God cares for people and if we would listen, so would we.”

I guess it’s time to go care for people.

Me, Carlos and Sarah (my friend who first introduced me to Hands At Work). What a special time it was to all be together!

And what does the LORD require of you?
       To act justly and to love mercy
       and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8