We had the final rest (some of us rested) last night at the homestead. As we've lived here for three years, conceived of it and watched it being built, chose the elements that decorated it...it's awfully strange to leave it.
As I was pondering this morning about why there were momentary flashes of sadness as we emptied the closets yesterday, I realized that though we've "moved" several times, we've never left the world as we've known it before. This sort of departure brings with it some really silly sentimentality. For example, never have I felt anything other that appreciation for the utilitarian function of the hangers in the kids' closets. Yesterday however, I recalled buying them and what the closets looked like with their precious clothes hanging on those darling, precious hangers.
See what I mean?
Tonight we begin our journey of staying in new beds. Some dear folks from our community are allowing us to stay in their home for the next 6 nights while they're in Argentina. Then, we'll have have a 4 day stop in a sort of "way station" (a guest house in a large city where we land first) before we ultimately arrive at The New Place. Yet even when we arrive at The New Place, we'll be staying in a temporary apartment as ours is not yet completed its construction phase. Hopefully by the end of August, just prior to our school year's beginning, we'll finally move into our official homestead in The New Place.
Good thing we like adventure!
This morning as I was reading a Good Book, I marveled once again at the relevance of the history contained within it. In Matthew, his 19th chapter, I was reading about this guy named Peter who asked the Teacher, "We've left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?"
More and more I can see the burning questions in my heart spoken from the mouths of others in the Book. The question Peter asks goes around and around in our minds and we talk about it as a family often. But the Teacher's response is so amazing, because it too addresses right where we are in this journey. "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life."
It's good to know that others understand this tangled web of emotion/reality where we find ourselves. It is that hope that compels us.
For His sake...
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I pray that Bub's appointment today solves the problems for his eye. Although we cannot be there when you get on the plane to fly far away, our hearts will always be with you. We pray for your safety always and that God will bless you as you serve him. We look forward to news about your adventure as often as you have time to provide updates.
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