Dear Friends in Christ;
It’s been a while since I last put my thoughts and my feelings down. Life has been crazy being back home and it has been a time of reflection on God’s mercies that are new every morning and learning more of how to reflect God’s love to those around me. I have to admit that it hasn’t been very easy being back home, being surrounded by commercials, by comfort, it’s been hard to hear God’s voice in all the crazyness that takes place on a daily basis. It’s been hard to be completely surrounded by his presence because am constantly surrounded by busy hours and traffic!
One day, I got the privilege of sitting together with an old refugee woman from africa, and enjoyed her company as she was telling me the story of her life. This made me miss my days in africa so much becasue I wanted so badly to be surrounded by people of her kind at all times. As she was going on talking about how she met her husband, how he died, how she fled from one country to another, my heart sunk, yet i was comforted by the friendship and by knowing that God has always and will always be at work in his people no matter what.
Another evening, two of my friends and I picked up some groceries and visited with an older woman that is living in the public housing here in Nashville. Again, I was overwhelmed by her warm welcoming spirit and how she was grieved that she didn’t feed us! I owe her to go back for dinner. She talked to us about her children, about her struggles of being in this country by herself, and of course how God has been good to her. She was talking about how Jesus is her only friend on, since she lives by herself, he is the only person she can talk to as a friend, he is the one that she spends time with in her lonely apartment. These are the moments that I long for, in the crazyness of my schedule, in the crazyness of work and school, in the times that I long to be in Africa working with more of these women and learning from them.
Since I have been back, I have been working with African Leadership, developing their African refugee youth programs here in Nashville. It’s been a great challenge and I have truly enjoyed it and still enjoying spending time with these youngsters, listening to their thoughts and struggles in this new environment. Please pray for this ministry as it is still in the early developing days.
More to come!
