It’s time, it’s time… I can
almost hear the sounds and smell the smells that arriving in Sierra Leone
tomorrow will bring! There’s so much to be make me go, ‘eeeeek and aaaaaagh’ but
actually I’m REALLY excited! God called me to this place after all so He’s not
gonna up sticks now and leave me… is He?? That’s not my God. I feel like I’ve
learnt lots about how utterly full of love He is these last couple of years and
can’t wait to see what He’s going to do next to blow my mind some more ;) It’s
a few years since I was in Sierra
Leone but I am sooooooo looking forward to
landing in this beautiful nation that has so much to be bitter about, yet seems
to be filled with huge smiles and warm hearts… it kinda makes me dance inside! So
as from Tuesday, I’ll be the Ward Supervisor again on the Africa Mercy – the
world’s largest non governmental Hospital Ship… whoop whoop.
Of course there’s SO much I don’t
want to say goodbye to as well… but as I watched a documentary a couple of
weeks ago about women giving birth in Chad and saw how little they had, it made
my heart ache. So many women there are dying simply because they have no access
to healthcare or even when they do, the right drugs aren’t available... the same story is echoed throughout too much
of the world. It really made me think and shift my head from feeling sad to
leave my cosy life to feeling a desperate, ‘I have to! How dare I not???!’… so
it’s with relative ease that I can say goodbye – knowing that I am more than
blessed by so many good things, but that my skills can be used elsewhere for
now…
There’s challenges ahead – some
big ones. Never think living and working in a Christian community somehow makes
you exempt from life’s frustrations – it doesn’t! I want to be part of a team
that abandons selfish desire and everything else that gets in the way of God’s
incredible power at work and together come to a place where we see more of how
BIG God is. I’m pretty sure He says nothing is impossible with Him, right? I
wanna see that! So pray for me please… my heart is that all we do in caring for
patients and for each other will be infused and full to bursting with love and
would love if you could pray for that.
Thanks everso everso and PLEASE
keep in touch! It means the world to me!
Love you forever, KWW xxxx.
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