Where you go I go..: I miss them.

First I want to apologize for not updating this after I got home. I have been home now well over a month.

It’s been a month of adjusting and getting my sleeping habits back on track, getting use to working again at a “normal” job (There’s really nothing normal about my job, I cook for about 4000 kids daily), trying to apply what I learned this summer to my life here in Omaha. Its been busy with work, working with our refugee kids, church, starting a lifegroup and finally getting settled into our house (We moved in in May).

I promise that I am writing a final newsletter to each of you who gave toward my trip. Once I get it written I will get it out to you.

In the meantime...

This trip my team and community was from not Omaha (besides Jake and Anna who are from here) which means I don’t get to see them.

Community is a funny thing. When you are in it, it can seem hard. People are people and we do people things.

This summer I love my team and it was also a point of frustration for me. Moments of not feeling seen or heard. Times of being alone with no one to walk with to laundry or the grocery or GG. But there were also moments of pure joy and laughter, of heart to heart talks late at night or just in the middle of the day. There were many prayers spoken for each other and a sense of family. We were three parts that found a way to become one.

Now that I'm reflecting and looking back on the trip those hard moments seem to disappear. (They usually do) And what I remember is the good moments and the moments where we fought for each other and held each other up when we couldn’t do it alone. Which results in me truly missing my team. I miss each of them. I miss my girls from California, those who walked thru life with me this summer. I miss each of my teammates who would walk up the hill to GG in the mornings. I miss my monday brunch buddies and my sweet sweet roommates. We were a team of such different people but all of us were connected by someone and something very important--Jesus and having him known everywhere, sharing his Hope and Love with everyone we meet.