When Reality Sets In…

As the alarm clock goes off and my wife tells me it’s time to get out of bed, I wonder, how can it be 6:00 in the morning already. It’s time to go get all the boys up and get them ready for school. In about two hours, I’ll walk down the hill in the cool fresh African morning air and go teach my computer classes… Then I open my eyes and reality hits me, I’m not in Africa. I’m not with the boys. It’s 7:00 a.m. and it’s time to get up and take my kids to public school here in the U.S. It only seems like yesterday that we were supposed to be on an airplane heading “home”, but we are here at home in the U.S. It’s days like this that I really miss Africa and long to be there with all my heart. I know that right now God has us where He wants us and that in order to return to Africa we have to be diligent with the tasks at hand. Many of you may not know that my wife and I are expecting our third child in October and we were advised to stay in the States until our precious baby is born. We know that our God is faithful and just and that He knows our hearts desire is to be in Africa. As I have been really missing Africa recently, I reread the scripture Jeremiah 29:11 in the Message Bible and really like what it says: “I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.” We know that in everything we are right where we need to be at this time and moment and God will bring us back home. I would like to say a personal thank you to every who has prayed for us and continues to support us on a monthly basis. It is our goal to return to Africa as soon as possible after the baby is born, and we need all the support that we can get, both in prayer and financially.

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