{"id":3790,"date":"2020-06-07T18:10:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aimint.org\/ca\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2025-04-10T20:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T20:58:55","slug":"after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimint.org\/ca\/2020\/06\/07\/after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Inlander Blog&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#8f8f8f&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/aimint.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2020\/04\/Inlander-blog-header4.png&#8221; background_size=&#8221;contain&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; min_height=&#8221;151px&#8221; height=&#8221;100px&#8221; max_height=&#8221;100px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|1px||0px|false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||0px|false|false&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; 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sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<style> body{ font-family: minion-pro, font-size: 16px; serif; } <\/style>\n<p><strong>Once upon a time<\/strong>\u00a0we dreamed of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>It was something like seven years ago, and we were criss-cross-applesauced on our family room carpet, playing Spin The Globe. If you have never played Spin The Globe, it goes like this: your friend Lori grasps the wooden base while her husband, Landon, spins that ball of pretend Earth. He closes his eyes, then jabs his finger on the spot where you will all one day serve as missionaries, presumably according to God.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s pause for a second to install a proper backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>By this time, 2010ish, we\u2019d been shaken inside-out by David Platt\u2019s What the Gospel Demands sermon series, and we were sufficiently inspired\/terrified by Katie Davis (in her book, Kisses from Katie), who\u2014at the ripe age of twelve (okay, eighteen, but she looked twelve)\u2014had her heart and feet planted firmly in the right spot: Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>According to my laws of overgeneralizing everything, this meant we should probably take up life in Uganda, too.<\/p>\n<p>So there we were in our family room: globe-spinning and giggling like mad, but also a little bit serious. And to this day, I don\u2019t know if he rigged the landing, but when that globe wobbled to a halt, Landon\u2019s finger centered dead on Uganda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It was settled, then.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But life circled on as it does, work and kids and sleep and work again. And somewhere in the bustle we got serious about following God\u2019s lead, even if He led to not-Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Our family moved to Kenya, then Central African Republic (CAR). Landon and Lori moved to deep-city Indianapolis (which, let\u2019s be honest, took loads more guts).<\/p>\n<p>We thought we\u2019d be in CAR for some three-to-twenty years, but a few ragtag factions of rebels decided that actually, we would not be staying.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we were rerouted to an assignment in Kampala\u2014as in, yep, the capital of Uganda. And so here we are after all. PS The moral of my story, I think, is do not play around with globes, because even if you are joking, God is apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve absorbed our recent evacuation from CAR, I\u2019ve learned that trauma has a way of showing up in aftershocks, long after the ground has ruptured and split.<\/p>\n<p>Once when I was this smidge of a kid growing up in the vast Pacific, I dreamt about a tsunami. In my dream, the sea pulled out, unveiling a swath of sand jeweled with starfish and glittering shells, all spired and pink and bigger than my fists. I plucked them up, one by one, heady with wonder, only to hear a ubiquitous mom-voice calling from the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, come on, come on, the voice said. We need to run. When the ocean does this, it\u2019s about to crash back as a tsunami. And right on cue, over my shoulder a cliff of water slammed in. My dream-feet were lighter than breath as I raced the wave, trailing shells on the streets like exotic breadcrumbs.<\/p>\n<p>When I woke I was sadder about not having shells than my possible death-by-tsunami. At nine years old, my priorities were well-sorted.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve learned in the intervening decades that tsunamis often aren\u2019t like that\u2014a single curving wall of water scraping the sky. Instead, they tend to come in successive waves, each swell like a quick-rising tide surging with enough force to drag cities out to sea. Even when they don\u2019t look like much, they can be lethal, unstoppable.<\/p>\n<p>Grief is like this, I\u2019m learning. Rolling in on wave after wave. Insubstantial at a glance, perhaps, but crushing. Unrelenting.<\/p>\n<p>But good news: we have a God who soothes storms and walks on water. Heck, we have a God who first invented water.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks back I chatted with a far-flung friend from our Central African Republic team, seven time zones away, and I felt the instant relief of not needing to explain. She is good for my soul, that girl, and right before we hung up she told me something that I\u2019ve been trying ever since: asking God for my daily bread. Not literal bread, although sourdough (and soups and coffee and sandwiches) are my actual love language, but provision for whatever that day will bring. Internal riches and resources, like constancy. Patience. Wisdom that reaches so far over my head I can\u2019t begin to take credit.<\/p>\n<p>And God answers, plus somehow people keep popping up at my door, or in my messages or inbox, to love me in ways both reckless and necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a strange twist to my ever-weirdening story: after my seven-years-ago near-obsession with this place, when I finally had the chance I resisted picking up life in Uganda. I wanted to be in the North or the islands or even Kenya. Anywhere but here. My reasons were unfair and childish, but I felt them fiercely.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this place, too, is a gift. In this space, we\u2019re learning to breathe through the shudder of helicopter blades and low-roaring planes, through the fresh flood of panic in our veins at anything resembling gunshots. This country positions us just one step away from friends sheltering in DR Congo. We\u2019re recovering clarity of purpose, equanimity. We\u2019re growing close to new people, even as we fight to keep sight of the old.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sleeping through the nights again.<\/p>\n<p>God knew, way back in our family room, about Uganda. How I\u2019d want it and then not want it and then flat-out need this place. And I can\u2019t begin to fathom that this country needs me back, but it does need God, and I sometimes get to work in the alleys and backroads right beside Him.<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming majority of folks I\u2019m coming to know here are open and curious and kind. The Kampala hills are vast and moody, the storms intense, the air buttery and bold. This is our home for such a time as this, and so we push down roots and tilt our chins toward the sky and pray we\u2019ll make much of God.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_3,2_3&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Author bio&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/aimint.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2020\/06\/Owens-family.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Owens-family&#8221; align_tablet=&#8221;center&#8221; align_phone=&#8221;&#8221; align_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; animation=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<style> body{ font-family: minion-pro, font-size: 16px; serif; } <\/style>\n<p><strong>Story by Nicole Owens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Todd and Nicole Owens and their children have served with AIM at Rift Valley Academy (RVA) in Kenya, then as part of an outreach team in Central African Republic, working with both the Zande and Mbororo peoples. After being evacuated from CAR, the family moved to Uganda to serve at Acacia International School, and where Nicole began contributing to AIM\u2019s field based media team. 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