Recently, my husband surprised me with an overnight date at a very fancy Hotel for my 55th Birthday! The Speke Hotel is located in Munyonyo, Uganda and about an hour’s drive from where we live. The hotel graciously offers a very reasonable weekend rate for locals that includes three wonderful meals with an overnight stay.
Randy knows my favorite thing to do for fun and relaxation is to sit by a pool, read, swim and enjoy the sun. So for one day and night, we left the village where we live and entered the world of luxury.
I am not going to lie, I loved it! It was so relaxing, beautiful, clean and effortless to enjoy. We even met some friends from church who were staying overnight there too.
But, when I got home, hugged my kids and started making plans for the coming week, it really hit home that though this place was almost perfect in every sense of the word, my life here in the village is where I want to be. I love my kids (both at home and at Hope), my Mamas at Hope, our visitors, and the whole village of Kaliti where we are beginning to make an impact. There is no place I would rather be than in the villages with the poor living life together and giving whatever meager portion I have to give to make their lives just a little bit better than it would be if I were not there. That is the best birthday gift I could ever receive and I get to have it for as long as the Lord seems fit to have us here.
