Ready to go - but to what?

Well, after several sessions of packing, unpacking, repacking, sorting, storing and ditching, I'm pretty much ready to go. This time tomorrow, I'll be on board a plane on my way back to Kenya. With reports over the weekend of fighting in Nakuru, resulting in over 30 deaths, and then today of at least 10 deaths in Naivasha, I'm rather wondering what awaits me when I get back. Travel around that beautiful country will certainly be curtailed, and life in Nairobi will probably be rather different to what I knew before until things start to settle. And what will it take for them to settle? No change has thus far taken place politically, and whatever tribal rifts there were before must surely be deeper now with 300,000 displaced people and at least 750 dead. A criminal element has come to the fore on the back of the allegations of vote rigging, and is continuing to wreak havoc and destruction.

Please pray for the nation and people of Kenya.
"If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, and turn away from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven. I will forgive them and will HEAL THEIR LAND." ( 2 Chronicles 7:14 ).

Winter / Spring Madness!

It's January and there are daffodils out already!!! It doesn't seem quite right somehow. It's meant to be winter still, and daffodils herald Spring. What's more, I've only seen 1 snowdrop so far, and no crocuses. How come the daffoldils got ahead? What is going on?!!
Still, it is a blessing and a nice surprise as I haven't seen daffs since I was last in the UK during Spring in 2002.
(These were at the back of Sainsbury's in Horsham.)

Rounds of goodbyes

One of the hardest parts of missionary life is all the goodbyes. After 7 months in the UK, I'm a week away from returning to Nairobi, and very much in the thick of seeing people for the last time until I'm next back in about 15 months. It has been great to reconnect with family and existing friends, as well as form new friendships. Hard now to be saying goodbye. A consoling thought is that at the other end of the 8.5 hour flight, there will be quite a number of "Hellos" - or "Jambos"!