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One of the things I can never get over in my travels in East Africa is how loved the children are. I grew up on images of kids covered in flies in need of missionaries and salvation, only to arrive on the continent a lifetime later and find that the only person in need of redemption was myself.

This week on a last minute quiet trip to East Africa, I spent hours and hours in a very congested city, talking to my very savvy driver Rogers. No one will develop you, he told me, without wanting something in return. And I knew it was true for me most especially. For every good thing I have done in Africa, there is a deep and dark demand, a desperate longing to be folded into the togetherness for which I have no birthright.

I did not survive the genocide, Innocent once told me, to be confused about money and love.

But still I don't understand. I'm still buying my way into the place where Chelsea stands, secure in the knowing she can never be alone. I'm still hoping something will make that place inside a strong embrace the place I deserve to land, simply because I am, simply because it was always meant to be.

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Powerful and deep words Jen. One could get very lost in the introspection of it all particularly if as you say in the next post you are inclined to ...

" ... pick up my pieces and belabor them, to rearrange them like a thousand piece puzzle without the box, forgetting over and over again how anything fits."

I wonder what would happen if we stopped struggling to make sense of it all and could just be. I tend to spend time ruminating over the why, when there is often no answer other than it just is.

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No doubt that the good things that you have done have bridged gaps and built relationships. Believe that. Let your Faith be in your embrace.

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That was beautiful Jen. I had to read it over a few times to really understand the meaning of it.
But it was beautiful.

May you attain everything you heart desires. one day.

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