Now this may come as a surprise for supporters or parents, but for our uganda team you were only half of the intended audience of our blog posts. Because we were split into two different locations with two very different trips , many of us wrote to update the our half of our team. Don’t think for a split second that ya’ll are discounted in anyway, cuz its nice sometimes for yall to be able get into our heads, see through our eyes, feel, what we feel. We are able to explain our experiences that much easier. I beg ya’ll to keep reading on, but this for mainly for the 25 other men and women that were on the battle field.
I found it quite ironic that one of the last byes we heard was the exact same good bye i told many of my closest friends. Haha “Isn’t it ironic” (insert beth a voice). I’ve got a problem believing in coincedinces, but laying in bed and now sitting a my computer at 1300 African time, it’s hit me (sorry if i’m the last n slowest of the group) that we might as well be saddling up for a new mission trip. Think of the scary stuff that plagued our minds two months ago: How are we gonna handle the culture shock; The homesickness; the people i left 9000 miles away; even worse, what about the people that i’ma be surrounded by, will they accept me? Aren’t those the same questions we faced the 60-something days ago?
So let me askya the same simple question we were bombarded with when were 63 days younger, but years more immature, and sure as hell not near as wise in the spiritual battle (that we not only endured, but conquered):
“Are ya ready to…?”
Its not the easy stuff anymore. Forget digging wells or playing with kids. We gotta get our hands dirtier than that African dirt every did. We had an AMAZING support system in Africa. We don’t have a staff that cooks for us, or people that will be driving us to ministry spots, but that means nothing. It’s that warm body that we’re sharing the single bed with, the person sitting on our lap cuz the car just ain’t big enough, the one on the other side of the arguement, the 11 other people that we have been working shoulder-to-shoulder with. They now are now the one you dream about while in bed alone, the person you wish you could just reach out n hug, the understanding heart that is on the other side of the screen to listen.
Unfortunately we’ve have been reduced to that… and dont have that oppurtunity to call someone aside to talk ya through what you need.
Are ya ready to…?
-lead that bible study God put on your heart
-get in front of and speak to your congregation
– have that hard conversation with the nearest-n-dearest people in your life
-make a 180 turn in what you’re doing, or aren’t doing in your life
you ready to do it, by yourself?
Cuz i think you are. i’ve seen each one of ya in action. Now you gotta believe it yourself
I love you guys and always will
See ya’ll later
-Travis
