Journeying 8,594 Miles Away

So it has been exactly 2 weeks since I got home from Uganda. Since I've been home I think and pray about Africa often. I pray about Uganda, Jinja, Kupendwa Ministries, the sweet mothers I met, the squishy babies I held and the lifetime friends I made. Thinking about my trip brings about a wave of emotion that I'm still learning and discerning. The one unfailing thought I have is gratitude. I'm just so grateful and thankful that God allowed me to be a part! When I stepped off the plane in Uganda I welled up with excitement and thankfulness! Uganda was the same place that God had called me to pray for just a few months earlier. I had prayed, wondered and desired...and the desire and prayers didn't go unanswered. God knew my heart and heard my prayers! He knew how much joy and heartbreak I would find. He knew that I would have to solely trust Him as I left my sweet husband 8,594 miles away for 2 weeks. He knew I would meet Winnie and find a new best friend 8,594 miles away. He knew I needed to learn how to love Him by watching sweet teenage mothers pour out for Him from morning to night. He knew I needed to trust His word by uttering it through tears and sobs to mothers who were suffering. God had promised and dedicated those moments in Jinja, Uganda for me. He had that promise for me from the time He was knitting me together in Shea Shea's Womb (Shout out Mom....I love you-Kwagala Nyo). It so overwhelming and humbling to see a promise carried out and to have God meet the desires of your heart. So be encouraged. God has promises set aside specifically for you! Sometimes the promise is to pray for a season, sometimes the promise is to take a new journey. When you spend that season in prayer God will give you a journey that reveals a sweet promise ONLY FOR YOU!

Disclaimer: Everyones journey/promise is unique don't compare your journey/promise to someone else's thats disqualifying the greatness of God.

Sweet Winnie and I visiting the NICU at the Hospital in Jinja

Betty, Rebecca, Ruth (one of the sweet staff at Kupendwa), Sauda, and Mirimbe hanging out and being silly!

Shamim and Baby Leah looking precious!

Stella, Shifa, Baby Hope, Me and Mirimbe posing in the Kitchen!

Visiting the NICU at the hospital in Jinja!!

A Promise in His word:

O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain! Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord ? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! (Psalms 139:1-24 ESV)

Couldn't put all the pictures here but there will be plenty more on facebook :)

Webele Nyo! (Luganda) Thank you so much!

Thankful and grateful!

Aubri