Author: Adventures

                            When I wrote “It hurts to say good bye” I really thought that would be my last blog about my precious time in Swaziland. I had already left the beautiful country and my Swazi friends and would shortly be back in America. Those were my closing thoughts, my closing emotions and what I thought was me closing that chapter of my life. Unbeknownst to me I hadn’t yet learned everything that I was supposed to...

    It hurts to say good bye. It hurts to see your face for the last time. Will we ever see each other again or only at night in our dreams? Was this our last good bye or do we still have hellos ahead of us. No matter what, I will never forget your smile. I will never forget the tears we shared. I will never forget your love. I will never forget the way you made me feel. I came here to minister to you, yet you were the one ministering to me. You taught me how to be selfless. You taught me how to genuinely care and most importantly you showed me how to love. You showed me how to...

          Over the past week and a half I have tried to figure out how to emotionally detach myself from everything I have come to know and love here in Swaziland. The things I have experienced during my three months here will now always be a part of who I am, a part of my story, but it is time to go home and start the next chapter of my life.             During the past three months the Lord has taken me through some healing from things in my past that have left wounds, and I...

Well, here it is; my last blog whilst here in Swaziland. I never felt like I would ever be at this point, although I’m glad that I am. It’s been great here but I know that the Lord has a lot in store for me back home. I will miss many of the people here, most notably our friends Bheki, Lelo, and Musa. I could talk about Bheki’s smile, Musa’s laugh, and Lelo’s smooth style for hours, but I’m trying to wrap things up and I don’t want to be too wordy, if that’s possible. It seemed that Bheki and Musa were over every night for dinner, and of...

               This past week has been filled with many goodbyes. Everyday brings new reminders of things that I am going to have to leave behind when I return home. I am going to have to leave people I’ve grown to love, ministries where I’ve worked and a community that I’ve lived in. Although I’m sad to say goodbye to these things, something cool that I have learned is that no matter how much I leave behind there will always be the things I’ve learned, experienced, and will remember that I...

I’ve already talked some about a lady at the Hope house named Cynthia. She really defines the word precious. On Monday I went in to visit her. We just sat with her for a little while and decided to share some verses with her. I had felt I was supposed to share a verse with her last week but I didn’t get a chance to. One of my teammates shared the verse Romans 8:28 with her.  “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” The verse I had felt I needed to share with her last week...