Yesterday morning I woke up on the edge of Uganda's biggest national park. The sun rose with its orange, warm glow over the endless fields of green. For the first time in a long time, I woke up in a bed with white bed sheets in a small cottage that I shared with a dear... Continue Reading →
Pff, I'm tired. I should be all energized from my leave and ready to get back into work. But maybe I am not. But just a couple texts from a friend already make such a difference. And while I am heating up some tomato soup and cutting up my own mini-tomatoes, my guard walks buy.... Continue Reading →
It's strange how in the moments that you feel like you have enough, that God provides you with more than you asked for. Okay, maybe that needs a bit of explaining. Every morning, at least when I am in Kampala, I read just a tiny bit of inspiration from various authors. Day 304 (I decided... Continue Reading →
Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you...I will bless you... and you will be a blessing to others. Genesis 12:1-2 I got a text today from a dear friend with these words. She didn't know that just five minutes before I had... Continue Reading →
How do you live with your own broken heart? We all have them and all fear them. We all struggle with our daily brokenness, just as much as we try avoiding it. At least I do. All the time. Pretend to be good. To be perfect. To deliver the best quality. Results. While being the... Continue Reading →
There is a fine balance between living by the day and planting a tree for future generations. If you would just live based on today, you wouldn't see a reason to plant that tree. But if you would only live thinking about the future twenty years down the line, you probably wouldn't get your hands... Continue Reading →
Easter weekend is almost over. These past 4 days went by so fast. Beforehand I was really looking forward to having a couple days of rest. Days to let everything of the first weeks of Uganda life sink in. Yesterday I wrote an emotional blog post (in Dutch, sorry!) about that journey from my head... Continue Reading →
It's Friday. The most special Friday of the year. But also the hardest, most emotional, beautiful and unreachable. Normally I would spend this day at school and then go to church in the evening. I even spend it once walking the Camino to Santiago de Compostella. Tonight I sat in a green garden somewhere in... Continue Reading →
Work life has now really started. The office has more people walking around again and my tasks are getting more concrete. I will go out into the field this week to, so if there are no more blogs until Saturday, bear with me! I'll be writing, but simply with pen and paper. So before this... Continue Reading →
