Life Back in America...

Thank-you all so much for your support, encouragement, prayer, humor, updates and love over the past six months... what an experience it was! I thank God for the friends and family he brought into my life... so many of you were a constant encouragement through email and posts and phone calls and care packages and prayer. THANK-YOU for being with me during this chapter of my life... I am so humbled by the kindness God has shown me through so many of you!!! I am safe back in America and back home with my amazing family. Transition was a bit difficult, more so coming back to the states then it was going to Uganda... somehow surprising. But slowly and with the support of my church and specifically Pastor John and his family I am feeling more settled. It is challenging to go from living with so little to living in such excess... from little huts and red dirt to the grandeur of the North County Fair, San Diego... or from going to sleep on the plane and waking up in front of the Westminster Abbey in London (CULTURE SHOCK at its finest!)... difficult to leave incredible friendships and relationships (LB&Keith, Sandi, BJ, Melis...) and SO tough to leave those kids that daily challenged me to LIVE and love in dependency on Christ... tough to leave that world that became such a part of me, and now to relearn to live here with the renewed mind and heart that developed there. Challenging to live fast again.
But you know, God is good. And his grace is so sweet. He has provided for me so sufficiently, so abundantly... from my precious family, to the Sales and my College group family, to you and those who have continued with me in intercession during the transition... he has gone before me and has paved the difficult steps with his grace. And I am finding now how what seemed so difficult is part of that grace of breaking and changing and making me fall more in love with Christ. That is a beautiful grace... and to see it that way I have to continue stepping in faith that his grace is there. I have not taken a step so far that has not been founded on his grace and depending on his goodness to meet me in that step... and he has been faithful.
Thank-you for continuing to walk with me through it all... I have been so appreciative of your kindness throughout the past months. You have been a piece of that sweet grace God has provided in each step. I pray that as you continue to step through the challenges and experiences of tomorrow and the next day... the next month... the year, that you will be found stepping in his grace and drawing nearer to Christ with each step.
Thank-you again so much for walking with me.
In His Grace,
Brittany