Peponi (paradise)

i have this overwhelming longing today to be in a bus traveling down a road full of pot holes in the warm evening of Uganda. i just wish so badly to sit on a bus for days staring out the window at the beautiful moon and stars. i miss the languages, i miss the smell so badly lately.

i can’t wait for the day that i have my own truck and i can just drive with the window down, drive down forgotten dirt roads park in a valley and watch the stars, i can’t wait for the smells to engulf my lungs again. i can’t wait to sit in the boiling sun beside a child and just talk. or just sit, i know it will happen, its just a question of when? i can’t wait to witness something beautiful to be brought to tears at the utter joy in poverty.

lately it seems like attacks are coming from all corners of the map, its brutal, i want to go back to the beautifully broken amazing incredible Africa. maybe i’m crazy, its just i feel at home there. maybe my life doesn’t make sense to anyone but i can’t explain the desire in my heart to be back in africa. its not that i want to run away form home its quite the opposite i want to go home!

the plans are in the works to go home, but at the moment its difficult because work is either very little or non existent. but my prayer is still to return in feb of 2013, to begin laying the ground work to live in africa permanently. my goal this time around is to have enough money to buy a truck, and start the process for apply for a Ugandan passport. at some point i would like a DRC passport to but i figure Uganda will be easier and it will help in the long run, and once i have the passport going to and from the country will be that much easier.

i could really use prayer that God would open a job up that would pay a very good amount of money, i have been praying that a job up in the canadian north would open up were i could work 12-16 hour days and make enough money to put money into savings so that i can actually put down on a truck as well as start raising funds for the plans to move over there for good. also just that god would help me in this time that i’m away from home (for those that don’t understand this, i love canada, but it is no longer home to me, don’t take that the wrong way, its just that my heart and were i feel strongly that god has called me is to live in africa, that is home).