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Loving Mercy

In a matter of days we'll be back in Uganda! Except this time with a much clearer purpose! Last time we went there for Julius and Grace's wedding, for a bit of a holiday... really expecting nothing more than to experience Africa, go on a safari and meet Julius's family... I'll never forget the first time I met his kids, the 11 he'd found lying underneath a bus in 2003. When we arrived at the house, they all came running out to the car to greet "Uncle Julius" and his white friends! My heart skipped a beat at how beautiful and innocent they all were, I remember fighting back tears at the thought of what they had been through when the LRA rebels tore through Northern Uganda and meaninglessly killed their parents, how scared they would have been, most of them under 12 years old at the time. The thought of how different our childhoods have been.... thinking back at what I would have been doing at the time all this horrible war was going on. And then the image o