Home is where the heart is...

...and I know I left a huge piece of my heart in Davao! The children, the team, the communities, the drug rehab boys, all captured my heart and now I find myself in the strange position of not knowing where I belong! I love London, with it's vibrancy, hectic pace and it's where my family and friends are, but now I have a new set of friends and family on the other side of the world too! I love both places, Davao and London, for very different reasons and I feel like I have two separate lives. Except that, everything I learn here at home I take with me to the Philippines and everything I learnt there has followed me back here. But in spite of having two lives now I love it and I wouldn't have it any other way. I fly back to the Philippines on November 2nd and will stay for four months this time. The first trip was always going to be a taster, to see if I liked it and I'd pretty much decided half way through that I wanted to come back. I started praying about it and asked the team to pray too. I had £800 in my bank account so I decided to see if I could get a return flight, the flight I requested came in at £1400, I was gutted. But then I scrolled down the email and the travel company said that they could offer me flights on the same dates via Frankfurt for £756!! So I booked the ticket and prayed again. 'Lord, I have the flight but I don't have the money to pay for the rest of the trip, please provide me with a job when I get home'. I landed in the UK on the morning of Thursday 6th September, by 4pm that day I'd been offered a job by a company that I used to work for, I didn't even have to make a call, they contacted me! God is good eh!

So I'm working in the heart of Mayfair, and it makes me laugh that I've gone from working in areas of extreme poverty to working in one of the most affluent parts of London. I have four weeks to go and already I'm excited about going back. I thank God that He lead me to the Philippines, I have never ever been this content or this happy, and it's not a feeling dependent on external factors, it's a peace that comes from deep within. I read a book when I was thinking of going overseas called 'If you want to walk on water you've got to get out of the boat', I took one step of faith and look where it lead! I'd encourage anyone to do the same...

Thanks so much for your prayers, your love, your support. I couldn't have done it without you...

God bless...