Acclimating to Uganda's - Cultural Exchanges
Climate, Heat, Transportation, Poverty, Language, Pace, Market, and more
would be a learning curve for all of us. Our resident missionary, Karen Hoglund, spent considerable
time and energy pouring into our team as we navigated the culture, and peoples of Uganda.
Driving on the Opposite side of the Road, No Road Sides or Lights, and yet
there was this intuitive/symbiotic/aggressive flow of traffic;
bicycles, motorcycles, taxis, jeeps, buses, semi-truck,s goats & pedestrians worked harmoniously
weaving in & out of what looked like chaos at times, yet mysteriously synchronized at other times.
It was a excellent picture of Messy Grace.
Not that Grace is Messy, but Grace enters & surrounds our lives even when chaos and filth seem to
clutter our perception. Grace continues to cover, and take over when things do not make sense. Favor & Order are to be grasped in the most dire of circumstances...
there was this intuitive/symbiotic/aggressive flow of traffic;
bicycles, motorcycles, taxis, jeeps, buses, semi-truck,s goats & pedestrians worked harmoniously
weaving in & out of what looked like chaos at times, yet mysteriously synchronized at other times.
It was a excellent picture of Messy Grace.
Not that Grace is Messy, but Grace enters & surrounds our lives even when chaos and filth seem to
clutter our perception. Grace continues to cover, and take over when things do not make sense. Favor & Order are to be grasped in the most dire of circumstances...
The photo below is the quintessential expression of the Ugandan Culture.
Life at times may be extremely difficult, (surrounding this little fishing village are Elephants, Hippos, Crocs, and more), yet, the simplest of pleasures may be had even when circumstances seem insurmountable - check out the kids rolling tires down the hill...
ecstatic with joy, uninhibited, care free.
This is the life, life more abundant - Christ desires for us,
though the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy
Christ has come that we might have life, and have life to the full...
(irregardless of circumstances)
