Thursday 3/15/18

It is 10:20 Thursday night and Maggie and i are getting ready for bed.  It has been an exhausting few days.  We left Pittsburgh at 145 pm on Tues and arrived in Entebbe at 1030 pm Wed.  We were greeted with bouquets of flowers from Rachel and then we made the journey to kampala.  Today Rachel and i planned our week and spent time catching up.  Tomorrow we will go to see the girls and i am so excited for them to finally meet Maggie.  I will try to update/post to fb and Instagram with pictures and videos because I know there are so many of you that are waiting to see everyone.
I will have so much to share after tomorrow, so please check back.  I thought i would just do a quick update tonight for those of you who are praying and waiting to hear from us.
Maggie told me that one of her friends asked her, "How is Africa?" She told me she did not know how to answer her.  I told her I knew exactly what she meant.  How do you explain in a few words what it feels like to experience so many emotions at one time?  Excitement, awe, anxiety, wonder, fear, sadness, happiness, gratefullness, confusion.... You are surrounded by strange beauty and despair and strong unfamiliar smells and sounds... knowing that you were sent by God who has blessed you with difficult yet life-giving work - so that in the end what really matters is not what Africa is like - but what Jesus is like.  Will they see Him in us? Will they know Him better and love Him more from our time spent together?  We must remember that we did not come here to feel good but to serve Jesus by serving others.  And so if anyone is wondering what they can pray for tonight, please pray that we will take our eyes off of ourselves and put them on the only One that matters...

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.  ~ Psalm 37:3