Saying goodbye

Saying goodbye to kimilili

                                     

Well we knew that it wouldn’t be easy and it wasn’t, but I guess the more you miss a place means the bigger the space that it has taken up inside your heart and that surely can only be a good thing.

It’s not just the culture that we will miss, or the amazing views, the warm climate, the friendliness of passers by, the chapattis or the Mandazis. We will miss most the great friends we have made.  If any of you are reading this, sincerely thank you for the love and welcome you have shown us, for your openness to learn, for showing us how to hope and for challenging us to 100% relay on God for everything. Tu ta rudi xx

The Simplicity of Kenya and the people there is truly beautiful, even though we have only been back a few days we are struck by how much we can complicate our lives here instead of just focusing on our daily bread. The need to be constantly developing and planning ahead is addictive and feels like were moving forward but often we forget to stop and look at what we already have and appreciate it the way it is for a while. I don’t know how you balance out two extremely different cultures in the day to day but I hope that we can still keep an essence of our Kenyan experience and remember the simplicity of Kenya when we are back in the swing of our stressed up little worlds and remember the words that were uttered to us   “…chill out.. we’re in Africa’ 

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So although sad that the fantastic experience we have had has inevitably to come to an end, we are so very thankful to God for allowing this trip, for working in us and for faithfully protecting us….. And so very thankful for all those who have supported us while we have been away.

Asante sana sana.xxx