My trip back to Rwanda this year began with a two and a half day layover in Belgium. I know, tough break.

I’ve never been to Belgium but thoroughly enjoyed my time there! Like other parts of Europe I’ve been blessed to spend time in, I was enamored with the history soaked culture of both Belgium and Brugge. From artwork to architecture I’m quickly becoming addicted to exploring cultures like this, each time returning home and noticing a distinct lack of that type of humbling history. The type of history that casts a shadow over the present, not good or bad, but demanding acknowledgement of the past when living in today and planning for tomorrow. I’ll do my best to put my thoughts together to better explain this later.

I wish I had more time to edit images and post them along with the full scoop of our time there, but for now a slide show of some of my favs will have to suffice!

I’m currently sitting in at the Chicago air port awaiting my flight to Brussels. From there it will be off to Rwanda and a week and a half of time continuing the ministry work I began my involvement in last year through my two month stay.  With the Rwanda trip just around the corner it made things a bit tight with Mexico this past weekend as well. But when the dust settled everything came together and God led us through a solid weekend of service and unity (both amoung one and other and with the community in Rocky Point). I’ll try to post a more descriptive account of the trip on the Love Walks blog soon (lovewalks.org/blog) but for now I wanted to share a few pictures from our time at the fiesta Saturday night. Hope you enjoy

Alex and Melissa are two of my closest friends. We go WAY back! So, that makes the fact that they are expecting their first kid-o all that much more exciting! About a month ago we snuck out to the desert by their house and I snapped some pics of the parents to be, here are a few: