This is to all of my loved ones in Africa!

First, re-entry... books, classes, and a strong mind and heart will not make this an entirely easy thing.  I heard this re-entry thing and the difficulties. I did not put much thought into it.  However, I did prepare by doing the above listed things. I did them because of nothing in my heart and probably did not seek the LORD in it as much as I would have otherwise.   I simply did them as something I should do and was told I needed.  It's a fight.  One thing I have learned is that living life in obedience to the Father is not an easy one.  I find the only time I feel it is "easy" is when I am sure the LORD has given me a SHORT time to rest after a long or hard battle.  I use to think there was something I was doing incorrectly if the fight was too hard.  Sometimes this was true. Sometimes I was fighting against the wishes of God for my life, but I would retreat more often than not believing that if the fight was too difficult than it must not be from GOD.  I am so sure now that there is a fierce fight going on in a world we cannot see but we can imagine from what the LORD has given to us through HIS word.  I seriously wish at this moment that I could take ahold of the devil myself right now in the physical sense and take him out!  You may sense a bit of the anger I hold to him, but I have been ignited with passion to fight the fight against Satan and WIN with the power of the LORD burning inside of me.  I hate Satan.  I can say this.  I HATE him. 
So currently I am fighting against Satan.  How he uses this re-entry for his purpose... his EVIL purpose.  He is there trying to disturb the peace and amazement the LORD blessed me with by fulfilling HIS desires for his people in Africa.   How dare Satan ever get this close to me? 
I stood before the ocean, under the full moon, and, surrounded by silence, screamed for him to get the heck away from me!  I showed up to a special meeting place where the LORD always meets me, and I realized that something else was there.  How dare he?!   
That sand covered the meeting ground where I hear the LORD call me to... its where I spend the intimate moments of time with HIM.  I refuse to allow anything EVIL to disturb that!
So as I fight this fight against Satan, I know its okay that things are a bit difficult.  I realize taht where the LORDs works are being done, well Satan is going to try and be ever present.  That's what he does.   His battle starts the moment he sees that the LORD's desires for this world and its people are being fulfilled.  Happiness, salvation, surrender, family, church gatherings, worship and praise... The devil prowls around awaiting this and attacks!

Florida has been having beautiful weather and it is still hard adjusting given what I just wrote.  I finally drove again yesterday.  This was the first time since a month before I left, and the longest I have went since three years ago when I got a vehicle.    I indulged in Starbucks and have been running every day.  I am so sore, my ankles even hurt and the two toes I cut off feel like they are broken right now.  Thanksgiving I had one of the best days I have ever had with my family here in Florida.  The significance was how close to God I felt this day.  I ended the day after a soccer  game and rousing game of pickle in the middle (guess who was the pickle? lol) on the beach under a nearly full moon, on a night that was unseasonably warm....

My mother and I have been talking often and I continue to hold passioante prayers for her.

I have been reunited with everyone.
Praise be to GOD, some of you know about this, but the broken friendship I had was restored the first day after I got back.   Apparently he had reconciled in his heart and with the LORD, um, just didn't think he needed to tell me because I was doing so well and was so happy.  Little did he know the tears I shed in desperate prayer for unity in the Spirit through the bond of peace!

I miss you guys.  It's hard readjusting to not being around so many people.  Its wonderful for certain moments, like dates with GOD on the beach late at night... but more often than not I am wishing you guys could have been packed up and taken with me!

I am praying for all of you. I love you guys so much!  Thanks for all you have done for me!!!!!