My life in the red dirt of Uganda.

Sometimes I want to spend hours talking with my best friends about boys and fashion and school and life.  I want to go to the gym; I want my hair to look nice; I want to be allowed to wear jeans.  I want to be a normal young woman living in America, sometimes. 

But I want other things more.  All the time.  I want to be spiritually and emotionally filled every day.  I want to be loved and cuddled by a hundred children and never go a day without laughing.  I want to wake up to a rooster's crow and open my eyes to see lush green trees that seem to pulse with life against a piercing blue sky and the rusty red soil of Uganda.  I want to be challenged endlessly.  I want to be taught by those I teach, and I want to share God's love with people who otherwise might not know it.  I want to work so hard that I end every day filthy and too tired to move.  I want to make some kind of difference, no matter how small, and I want to follow the calling God has placed on my heart.  I want to give my life away, to serve the Lord with each breath.  At the end of the day, no matter how hard, I want to be right here in Uganda.         - Katie Davis