Saying Goodbye

Today I go back to the US after three weeks in South Africa.  It is an amazingly beautiful place.  The weather has been fantastic as it is summer here in the Southern Hemisphere.  It is actually hard to believe it is really December.

Saying goodbye is never easy.  I am leaving a wonderful family who is doing a good work here.  Building relationships and then leaving is not fun, but it is better to have built the relationships and say goodbye than to have never known such remarkable people.  I am blessed even in saying goodbye.  Love continues and is not confined to our physical boundaries.  We will meet again.

The silver lining is that I will be saying hello to my fabulous friends back home.