Back when I started this blog, I used it as a way of communicating my experiences as I worked in Uganda. When we first moved here our bandwidth was so pathetic that I wrote in a journal, took a photo of the page and posted it here. The things I wrote were both personal and HFC related. I wrote about life as we adjusted to a new culture. People read those journals and left comments. There was interest in what we were doing. Then, our bandwidth improved and I got onto Facebook and twitter. Whenever I posted to this blog, my Facebook page and twitter feed would automagically get updated with a link to the blog.

And as our one-year trip to Uganda turned into three and then four, life became more mundane. We were more used to the culture and I stopped blogging because I thought, “Who cares, anyway?” Basically I got lazy. But I also felt like I was whining a lot, so I turned to a place where that seemed more natural: Facebook.

Facebook became my primary outlet and I abandoned this blog. I started caring about odd things like how many friends I had, how many likes my posts got and how many messages I got. I found myself pulled into the trap of caring too much about how many people liked me. And I got frustrated.

The fact is, this wasn’t ever about getting people to like me. I’m doing what I do because I can’t NOT do it. Every time I stray too far from what I’ve been called to do, whether it’s personally, spiritually, mentally or physically, my life goes off the rails in some (often dramatic) way.

So it’s back to basics. I’m blogging here because I found that Facebook took me too far from my purpose. I wanted to talk about HFC stuff and what’s going on. I wanted to get input about projects and hear what people have to say about what we’re doing. It’s not Facebook’s fault that I couldn’t find that there because Facebook isn’t about that. This blog, although it’s clunky and a bit too one-way for my liking is the one small place in the universe where I can talk about what’s going on with HFC (and what’s going on in Uganda) without worrying about what my readers might think. Because if you’ve come here to read this, you already have an interest.

So my goal is to post every day and talk about what’s going on with HFC in general, the work in Uganda and the rather HUGE and time consuming project we’ve been working on over the past few months.

See you soon back on the blog.

Johnny