It never ceases to amaze me how experiences in the past can reflect on and impact experiences today...in small and big ways. For instance, on Sunday I woke up and would have given both my right and left arm for a baguette from Tapha's stand in Dakar along with a Senegalese Coke. Monday I was feeling "homesick" for Africa and wore one of my sarongs from there. Wednesday I heard from a dear friend of mine in Tanzania that made me long for that place and then last night I was out in the country and looked up, remembering a village in Uganda where I learned just how many stars God really did put in the sky. Today a friend sent me a video taken in Uganda of a praise time. And tomorrow I am going to my friends' house to have mafe with them (a dish found both in East and West Africa). I guess you might say I have Africa on the brain lately...as I wait for God to show me where He wants me in this world, I continue to dream about her and pray for her people...her beautiful people who live in such darkness.

God is teaching me about being content where I am...and I've learned that no matter where I am, I will always miss the place where I am not...so all I can say to these things is that Heaven is going to be amazing. A place where it will all be brought together...at last. :)