Boy, that month flew by! But, it was a great month! I sooo enjoyed seeing old friends - thanks for all the breakfasts, lunches, dinners, ice creams, pounds I gained! and, oh, yes, water aerobics so I didn't gain any more! Loved seeing various family, too; thanks so much, Bethany, for driving over from B'ham; several meals and shopping trips with Mama; talking to my sister, not on skype or across 7 hours' time difference! It was good, too, to be back at Perimeter, both for church (love the new chapel): a TZ luncheon where I got to tell my favorite stories from this past year, running into people I love, Tz Wednesday night prayer and school: talking to 2 classes about TZ, wandering the halls hugging people, impromptu meetings, discussing various sponsored children, etc., etc.!
Daddy's still in rehab. Thanks to all of you who have prayed faithfully for him and my mom. Don't stop! Pray for him to continue to gain strength in his legs so he can walk out of there, pray for the chemo to work in shrinking the tumor, pray for him to keep up his spirits as the days get long, and pray for Mama to juggle her 2 patients (my uncle who lives with them is the 2nd one) and still find time to rest and take care of herself.
People kept asking if it felt weird to be here, or if I missed TZ. I guess I am more a person of the moment than I realized. It felt perfectly normal to be here, because this is my other normal. I did miss people in TZ, but not like I would if I weren't going back. That's probably the secret - I knew all the time that this was a "furlough," not forever, so I couldn't get too attached here, or miss TZ too much since I'll be back there so soon.
However, judging by my suitcases, I'm going for a decade this time! I'm praying that I don't have to pay too large a fortune for overweight baggage. Good grief - even my luggage gained weight!
Next blog will be from Tanzania!
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