ZION PROJECT HAS OUR 501c3 STATUS…FINALLY 🙂 You might wonder what these two images have in common. Since I began Zion Project, about a year and half ago when God told me to, it has been a long road of filing for our non profit status and setting things up etc. None of the fun …
Sometimes I feel my heart stop beating. When I was twelve, I convinced myself I had a heart murmur. I wasn’t quite sure exactly what that was but I felt sure it had something to do with feeling your heart quit. Or maybe hearing it talk— as if it were speaking a warning—that it couldn’t …
They say animals become restless before birth. There doesn’t seem to be a soft enough space to lie or right enough place to make a home. Everything is uncomfortable, wrong, and the places that should feel familiar don’t offer the reprieve they used to. When I was retreating in Mbale I saw the most precious …
(A view of from inside an IDP Camp) Malaria or Unidentifiable Bacterial Infection that feels strangely like Malaria—or what I imagine to feel like malaria—ie—worst flu I’ve ever had. Hmm, so which would you rather have? It’s kind of like that game “would you rather?” Like would you rather be burned alive …
We as Americans we come to foreign lands in search of something, something like our own heartbeat, something slippery and indefinable, but with presence, tinged with a certain energy. For any wanderer, traveling is the high, but everyone wants to belong somewhere–to feel a place, in a slow turning, become home. We want something of …
The north of Uganda is better than I dreamed in many ways, and worse in ways I had not imagined. Everywhere there are fields of sunflowers that make you want to run through them like Maria in the Sound of Music. I didn’t expect the green. Green trees, green wispy grass, and green cornfields taller …
(one of the many beautiful orphans you can come to hold if you visit Uganda) A lot of exciting things are happening. First of all, I don’t want you guys to worry about me, I sort of realized after a mini-lecture by a loving person who will remain …
