It’s been a beautiful time in Southern Africa. 

I am grateful to the hundreds of new and old friends I encountered, the devoted newspaper readers I met both randomly and at events. I loved teaching at Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and University of The Nations in both Namibia and in the Western Cape. Any smidgen of hopelessness I may briefly entertain about the future was quickly dismissed while in dialogue with hopeful and faithful and motivated students. 

I loved attending a family wedding in the Howick area of KZN.

The family wedding – as all weddings do – demanded I re-enter the full sway of family dynamics – none of us escapes such dynamics despite distance and time – and to do so was invigorating, inspiring. It was a beautiful event reflecting the love and commitment of generations of moms and dads and aunts and uncles and family and friends from who came from near and afar.       

I seldom travel away from home for a full month and now, before I board my homebound flight, I am feeling some of the expected stresses of being away. It is indeed time for me to return to my sons and to our community in Indiana, USA.