What's next?

Well, I have been home for almost two weeks now. Obvously I didn't write the Sunday I got home. That's partly because I was exhausted and until now it's been because I didn't know what to write.

It was very sad leaving. But I know that I want to go back. I am even thinking of doing the Journeymen program there next year. We will see where God takes me.

I miss Mark and Mary Beth and Mary Catherine, and the rest of the team.

I miss my African family members.

I have to admit that it has been tough being back home. I feel like I have been thrown back into a whirlwind of struggles and responsibilities and burdens to bear. Life was much more simple in Africa.

Don't get me wrong...It isn't bad being back, just different.

I got a call the other day from Thierno Diene...the guy who gave me my name. It put a big grin on my face. And today I spoke to Mark and Mary Beth with skype. They are getting ready to come home.

I wanted to come up with something really good to say to finish out this series of blogs, something wise. I got nothing though---- just a reminder that Mark gave me today.

We can be sure that God will finish what he has started in the lives of the people we spent time with. And we can be sure that God will finish what he has started in our own lives. Ma Mbay is definetly on the road to salvation...I think he was on it before we got there. We were just another part of God's providence, walking with him down that path for a while. Who knows, perhaps I'll be able to meet him/them on that path again.

And I am sure that God's providence will continue to lead me on to whatever is next, and I am sure that I'm in his hands.

Atoumang