As Worlds Collide...

3 October 2011

On my way down to the great state of NC, I've had my various worlds collide a few times!  The night before I left, I got to connect with a new friend I made in Germany over the summer.  She's a music teacher at the school in Kandern (at Black Forest Academy), and currently home on furlough.  We had dinner, enjoyed realizing that our transitions to the States have been pretty similar (aka we're not completely weird?!), and caught up on our lives the past several months. 

On my way to NC, I also got to visit with a dear missionary friend and housemate from Tanzania, who is currently on leave in Ohio.  It was a lovely couple of days of rest, restoration, catching up, Swahili-phrases and memories, quiet times, and each of us fully appreciating the changing of leaves that we haven't seen in quite a while!

If you're in full-time ministry and near Ohio... you've GOT to check this place out!  Just Google "InnKeepers".  A free, fully-furnished retreat center in a beautiful place... what a blessing!!!

Next, I stopped by Raleigh on my way to Rocky Mount and Tarboro.  Not only did I stay with a friend from Rocky Mount for the night (and get to meet people at her church), but I also got to go to dinner with another missionary friend from Tanzania... here in the States on training.  We did Panera so she could get a true taste of GOOD American fast food. :)

After 9 hours of driving... good thing Jo was ok with all my yawning over dinner!

Now I'm back to the present in North Carolina.  I'm catching up with friends, trying to remember what exactly has happened in the last two years (and what was happening while I was still here...), meeting new people, getting to share all about what God is doing in my life, and being blessed by sweet new and old friends along the way!

Tanzania, UK, Germany, America... different times, different languages, different years.  Amazing people, amazing memories.  All jumbled together in the course of a week.

Can't wait to see more people!