In this part, I will be sharing the unique experience I had during my short break from all the intensity of my previous rotation.
Let’s ride in…
DORA THE ADVENTURER
As usual, I was not sure if I wanted to travel or not. I was tired though and needed some free space to air out.
I finally made the decision to travel again for my short break.
Before then, I had a unique experience during my Paediatrics posting where I was opportune to volunteer in an outreach and also visit a natural tourist centre.
I did share more of this on my Instagram or YouTube but for the mean time I explained a little on a reel on my Instagram page.
Then I visited the beach where close to water, I gained deep memories and had release.
In these adventures with people I had come to care for and enjoy their company, I got some refreshing and release I believed was going to help me begin the next posting.
I prayed for a calm posting because honestly my previous posting drained me and using what I call the sunshine drop therapy, I was able to maintain a calm and smiling countenance.
Don’t worry, I may tell you about this therapy in a podcast
I completed my short holiday and headed back to base.
My next posting was medicine but what specific unit?
I will tell you if my fears were confirmed or if I managed to escape.
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I cannot count the number of times I have been asked:
“Why did you come to Sudan?”
Those who have asked cannot seem to understand why a person like me would come to a place like this.
My intial response used to be “Because my father (earthly) sent me here”.
However, as I have spent years here with all the things that have unravelled in my life, my response has changed.
A person like me
I am a Christian, and an Igbo, a combination that is not expected to be found in a muslim dominated country.
I wondered why people found it strange that a person like me would be in this country.
Why?
Why did my religion and culture mean so much?
That is a rhetorical question.
My response has always been “Because I am a human being and I should be able to live anywhere”
I know that response is not very valid even though it should be.
With the huge prejudice against Sudan, living here as a Christian foreigner has not felt too alien to me, maybe because I merged with the society easily and did not find it hard appearing like one of them.
In the form of wearing scarves and covering my body appropriately.
This is a normal appearance for me here
Why?
This is a story that would probably be shared appropriately in a proper context but for the sake of this post, I will share a little.
Before coming to this land, I made a prayer to God and I did not know He would answer me exactly. When the answer came, I accepted it with my whole heart.
I knew it was His answer but I was not completely prepared for the journey.
God prepared me along the line.
Feet and socks of mine 😁
Process
Through out the years I have lived in this land, a lot has been shed from my life, a lot has been planted and more has grown. I have been watered and fed and had experiences that are perculiar.
My faith has grown and I have understood purpose more.
I have had loss, shed tears, experienced confusion, pain and disappointments.
However, these experiences have been a fertile ground for God.
And He is still working
Another thing is, because I was not prepared, I who thought I had accepetd God’s will fully had limited the place He put me in.
I limited the land and in my mind categorized it as a dry land without an oasis. I had allowed that limitation affect growth I would have experienced earlier.
A popular sight
It took me almost all of the years I have spent here to realise my errors.
It reminds me of this verse
Psalms 63:1
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;(KJV)
I had focused on the dryness I had seen rather than on God who was able to show me where water was.
As Hagar was shown (Genesis 21:15-19)
Psalms 107:35
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
(KJV)
God called Abram and renamed him Abraham. Abraham was called to move into the land of the unknown, a land that was filled with sand; a desert. In faith Abraham moved and God blessed the land which was a desert and turned it to a fruitful land.
When God says move, we move and it is Him that would bless our obedience.
O. R. A
Why did you come here?
Another group of people now ask me this question.
The people of the land.
It is now their favourite question.
Why did you come to our country?
Why they ask?
…………..
My answer now is “Because God wanted me here”
And yes, that is that is why.
God wanted me here at this time, at this moment regardless of everything that has happened, I am here for a purpose.
As God leads
Part of the Nile river in Khartoum
As God leads, we follow and as we follow, we trust His guidance.
We need not limit ourselves nor our environment because it is The LORD that leads.
Deuteronomy 31:8 And the LORD, He it is that doth go before thee; He will be with thee, He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. (KJV)
I am grateful that regardless of my omissions, God has patiently given me opportunities to rethink of my decisions and mindset, and for future purposes in another land where He leads me, I should do better.
As Cavewoman continues, it is important to note that I am still shelling and this series is a glimpse of the things that are transforming in my life.
A cafe in the Nile River area
Through out this period of time, I have tried to capture moments as much as I could and you can find more on my Instagram page at onyirose12
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