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So I'm going to Uganda. Right now is when I post something really profound and insightful about travel and uncertainty and the rewarding depths of service and risk, but I'm having a hard time getting past that first part where I'm going to Uganda. I'm going to Uganda? Oh Peaches.

Someone once, rather harshly, told me that brevity is the mother of wit. As a little preface to this blog perhaps I should mention that brevity is not likely to occur as I am constantly barraged with superfluous thoughts that bare little relevance but which command authorship, and wit is just as unlikely to occur. Understand, that within this blog there will likely be numerous little asides, which hopefully will illuminate whatever subject we're on, but which will more than likely only prove to leave the reader, as well as myself, lost as to where we started from. I think that's a reasonable preface.

About Uganda: what I keep thinking about is Job 1:21 When Job says, "The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised." I understand that my scenario is not even remotely similar to Job's, but at the same time, I know that when I step on that plane, a lot of things will be gone for me. I will have suddenly lost a lot (I understand that "lost" is probably not the best word, but it emphasizes my thoughts none the less), and the removal of such things will undoubtedly lead to great sorrow. At the same time though, I am beginning to see the tremendous blessings that I've been given over the past 24 years and my gratitude has grown substantially. I know that I will miss a lot about being in Fort Wayne(Which in my mind should have become our nations capital many years ago. I mean, look at the Old Fort. If that doesn't scream "Whitehouse," what does?), but I am so grateful to God for having allowed me to experience these. Christ is so good. I am starting to really see that. Along with Job 1:21 is the idea that though Job went through tremendous sorrow, he was faithful to God, and God blessed him for this faithfulness. I think that this may hold true for me as well (please understand that I am in no way trying to equate myself with Job, I simply see that he was true to God in a time of hardship, and this is of great desire to me). I believe that Uganda has the potential to be an incredible blessing. I simply want to be faithful during the coming time of sadness and open to whatever mystery I get into in the "Pearl of Africa." I honestly cannot do this without God. That isn't necessarily what some want to believe and hear, but it is the truth none the less.