As you may know, my team and I have now completed our outreach phase of DTS and are back at base for a few more days until graduation on Friday. I will then be leaving Kenya on Saturday and will be that much closer to making my way home from Rwanda. Over the next few days I will be catching up on my posts that are currently very rough journal entries! But this is Africa, and nothing ever really goes according to planned. And considering how much packing I have to do...I humbly ask that you and my beautiful mother would be patient with me. I promise updates are coming! And I truly am very much looking forward to sharing with you all what God has been putting on my heart, but it's coming. Honestly, now that our debrief week has come and gone, I still fee like I am processing a lot. We saw a lot during our outreach. A lot of Kenya, of people, of the world...a lot of life. I truly believe there are some things, some experiences, that I will never completely process the full weight of. And that's okay! The past five months would have been the craziest, most emotional experience ever if I'd felt the full weight of it all on my shoulders every step of the way. Any kind of life would be impossible to live that. And I thank God that part of the beauty of life and the beauty His grace is that life is a very long learning process, so we process things based on their relevance to where we're at in life at that precisely that exact moment in time.
So, all this to say, I am in the process of summarizing what I've been up to in the past weeks and what God has been teaching me through it all. I also plan to share just how I process all this craziness step by step, through Rwanda and as I transition to finally being back home with all the people, the weather, and yes, admittedly some of the comforts I've been without for so long. I'm wondering if the coming back from five months in Africa will be filled with more emotional intensity than the 5 months themselves, but we'll see! For now, I'm just glad to be back at the base with a renewed sense of the semi-familiar in my life. Consistency is not one of the things I plan to keep taking for granted, it's a beautiful thing, no doubt about it!
~Chloe Anne
