5 days.
Five days to sort thru our things, deciding what stays and what goes with us.
Five days to pack up my things and move them to the apartment that will be waiting for me when I come back.
Five days to squeeze in several more memory-making moments.
Five days to wrap up 4 months of traveling.
Five days to say good bye - again.
Five days until we leave for home!
It's been over 4 months since we left Michigan. We've logged close to 5,000 miles, traveled thru 9 different states, and visited 4 countries. We've seen many new places; met many, many new friends; and said, oh, so many good-byes! Wonderful, faith-building, memory-filled - just a few words to describe this trip. We're sad to have to say more good-byes to the amazing people we've had the priviledge to work and pray alongside of during these last two month, yet we're happy to be going home to the our wonderful friends and support group that has never abandoned us during all our 'world traipsing' (at least not yet!) :)
When we were praying about and planning for this trip, one of the hoped for answers was further direction in our family's missions' ministry. God has opened doors for me personally, but my parents still don't have much direction or leading for next year, or beyond. They're not sure what it is that God wants them, and the rest of our family, to be doing - where He wants them to be going/working. Yesterday, a passage in Psalms spoke to me like never before: "I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." (27:13-14). To wait takes strength. Waiting on the Lord breeds strength; this strength breeds confidence.
Even tho we go back without much further specific direction than before, we go back in confidence. Confidence that we will yet see the goodness of the Lord.
When God is the focus, nothing is ever in vain!
You'll, very likely, be hearing from me again before we leave (or at least right after we leave!), but I leave you with this request:
Keep praying!
But not just for us.
Take notice of the needs around you and pray for those. Look for ways to listen to the needs of the people you come into contact with every day and pray for them. Search out God's Word, find His will, and pray for it to be done.
Keep praying. Be strong. Wait. Gain confidence that you, also, will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
We don't know what the future holds but getting there is half the joy!
Five days to sort thru our things, deciding what stays and what goes with us.
Five days to pack up my things and move them to the apartment that will be waiting for me when I come back.
Five days to squeeze in several more memory-making moments.
Five days to wrap up 4 months of traveling.
Five days to say good bye - again.
Five days until we leave for home!
It's been over 4 months since we left Michigan. We've logged close to 5,000 miles, traveled thru 9 different states, and visited 4 countries. We've seen many new places; met many, many new friends; and said, oh, so many good-byes! Wonderful, faith-building, memory-filled - just a few words to describe this trip. We're sad to have to say more good-byes to the amazing people we've had the priviledge to work and pray alongside of during these last two month, yet we're happy to be going home to the our wonderful friends and support group that has never abandoned us during all our 'world traipsing' (at least not yet!) :)
When we were praying about and planning for this trip, one of the hoped for answers was further direction in our family's missions' ministry. God has opened doors for me personally, but my parents still don't have much direction or leading for next year, or beyond. They're not sure what it is that God wants them, and the rest of our family, to be doing - where He wants them to be going/working. Yesterday, a passage in Psalms spoke to me like never before: "I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." (27:13-14). To wait takes strength. Waiting on the Lord breeds strength; this strength breeds confidence.
Even tho we go back without much further specific direction than before, we go back in confidence. Confidence that we will yet see the goodness of the Lord.
When God is the focus, nothing is ever in vain!
You'll, very likely, be hearing from me again before we leave (or at least right after we leave!), but I leave you with this request:
Keep praying!
But not just for us.
Take notice of the needs around you and pray for those. Look for ways to listen to the needs of the people you come into contact with every day and pray for them. Search out God's Word, find His will, and pray for it to be done.
Keep praying. Be strong. Wait. Gain confidence that you, also, will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
We don't know what the future holds but getting there is half the joy!