My friends have been in Africa this week. I’ve read their posts through half-open eyes – not because I’m sleep-deprived but because their beautiful, heart-felt and heart-broken words are hard to read, hard to process, just hard.

Every time Compassion takes a group of bloggers on a trip, I find myself with a split blog reader personality. I want to read every word . . . and I don’t want to read a single word. It’s important . . . but it’s so hard. The stories are so moving . . . but they make me cry so hard. The Compassion blogging program has changed my heart . . . but maybe I don’t want to change anymore.

See? Split personality. In case you’re a bit the same (aka, cuh-razy) and find yourself wearing the read every word hat this weekend, here are the posts the group in Uganda has written this week:

The Nester

• Grace at Home
• How to Have a Happy Home
• Dear Fellow Sponsors All Over the World
• Why Today Was Spectacular in an Ordinary Way

Emily Freeman

• Choosing the One You Least Expect
• A Day in the Life. Ish.
• 10 Things I’m Learning in Uganda
• What We Need When We Are Uncertain

Jeff Goins

• What Hope Looks Like
• The Meaning of Life in Three Parts
• The Dirty, Messy Part of a Writer’s Life
• The Worst Mistake You Don’t Know You’re Making

Joy the Baker

• Gloria Hope
• What It Means to Boil Water
• This Place We Share
• The One Thing I’d Tell My Mom

Shaun Groves

• Shock & Awe
• How to End Slavery
• What Good Dads Do
• This is Not a Success Story
• A Message from Pastor Amon to You

Mark and I sponsored our first Compassion child – Elizabeth in Ghana – after I read along with a group of Compassion bloggers. Then another trip meant we added Elizabeth in Kenya to our family, too. If you’d like to sponsor a child through Compassion, go here. You won’t regret it.