We just got back from our vacation to the sunny land of Florida. I can honestly say that I am ever so thankful to be back. It was an emotionally draining trip for me, and there is just something sweet about being welcome home by the Iowa nights that are sweet with the scent of corn growing all around. I always welcome the squared off patches of greens from the air.

Funny thing. On the last leg of the flight, I sat by a guy who was roughly my age and pretty good looking. Enough so that I was intimidated and didn't want to talk to him. Anyhow, we eventually started chatting and it ends up that his uncle is with New Tribes Mission (the mission I went to Senegal with) and living in Senegal!! It's just crazy how small the world really is when you get down to it.

Anyhow, I'm thankful to be home. A few more weeks and I'll be heading off to SC...a new adventure. A new chapter of this thing called life.


I whispered goodbye
I don't think you heard.
But the waves rolled in
And absorbed every word.

Goodbye.