Journeying with God Part I is a memoir of growing up along the Sobat River near Nasir, where seasons taught children to read the land, cattle taught families to organize life, and fear sometimes arrived with the first rain.

This is not a story told from a safe distance. It is told from inside the memories of a boy who watched war enter ordinary life, who learned the taste of hunger and the discipline of hiding, and who discovered that a human being can survive many dangers and still carry invisible wounds. In these pages you will walk through village routines and family bonds, the rules that raised a child, and the moments when childhood was interrupted by gunfire, loss, and flight.

At the heart of this memoir is a spiritual struggle that many people understand but few describe plainly. What happens when you grow up surrounded by strong beliefs about the unseen, and yet you begin to question them? What happens when you realize fear can be inherited, and that faith must become personal, not forced? What happens when a Bible in your own language lands in your hands, and the words feel like they have been waiting for you?

You will meet the author’s parents, their stories, their endurance, and the moral weight they carried. You will see how names and place-words carry meaning, how family pride can build a child, and how family tension can also sharpen a child’s conscience. You will enter the years when conflict between communities turned movement into survival, and when a boy learned that life can be taken before you understand why. You will see how the land itself can become both shelter and test, with swamps, forests, mudfish, and wild danger shaping the daily fight to stay alive.

Later, the story moves forward into adolescence and adulthood, where the weapons change shape but pressure remains. Schooling becomes a fight against interruption. Work becomes a fight against instability. Public speech becomes a risk in a society where words can be twisted and where truth can attract hostility. Through all these seasons, the book returns to one question: how does a person keep a clean heart in a place that often rewards cruelty?

Journeying with God Part I is written for readers who want a real life story, not a polished fantasy. It is for anyone who has lived through conflict, displacement, or loss, and still wants to believe in purpose. It is for anyone who has wrestled with faith, identity, tribe, and the heavy demands of forgiveness. It is for anyone who wants to understand South Sudan beyond headlines, through the eyes of one human being trying to live honestly under pressure.

This is Part I of a longer journey. It ends with the author still walking, still learning, still healing, still refusing to let fear become the final voice, and still choosing the slow work of character.