We stand at 48 hours from departure from The Old Place.
It seems to be real now.
We've spent the last few days (sorry for no Blog updates) whittling down our life's possessions into 5 final boxes and one old fishing boat with related items left in it.
When you move out of a 5 bedroom home with three baths and so many closets you can operate with little to no sense of reality regarding the VOLUME of stuff you possess.
The old homestead is cleared out for all practical purposes. Save for some final items that our dear realtor friend is "taking care of"...this is code for a trip to the dump. However, it is really satisfying at this point to say tht we have only those few things in storage and 16 suitcases of stuff. No moving trucks or overseas shipments...we're taking what we can carry. (Okay, we're taking what a small army can carry...but at least it's a big reduction from what we would have normally moved with us under any other circumstances!)
We celebrated on one of the most beautiful summer eveings imaginable last night with so many beloved friends from our community. Our hosts BBQ'd some thirty pounds of chicken, everyone brought a dish and we feasted like kings! It was such a meaningful night for all of us.
And with that evening now passed...we're in the final countdown mode. Today millions of details must resolve. Bub and Dad are headed down south to see the ocularists for another adjustment of his little eye. It looks fabulous when it's clean...but the lid cannot fully close over it...so more adjustment is needed. We have no desire to be at The New Place over the next year and still need some work on the precious eye.
Everyone asks..."How are you doing?"
We answer..."remarkably well."
It's so delightful to see how all of the loving care and divine intervention has carried us along each day. Though, sometimes we feel quite raw with all the emotions of leaving.
One dear friend said it best when she remarked that at this point in time we are poignantly aware of what we're "losing." But, we cannot yet see how He will replace those losses as He's promised to do. So, we wait in hopeful expectation.
It's all about to change...
3 comments:
It was truly an amazing evening lsat night, seeing all the H friends and family present... 'Special THANKS to Don & Rhonda Zwade for making their very special home and property available!
We'll all miss you - but are just SO proud, too!
Sunday evening was a celebration in Friendship and Chazown in Action! I am eager to see just how you will all be used, blessed and stretched through this incredible portal of experience through which you are about to journey...
Expecting the BEST,
D2
"remarkably well" ... more that I could ever imagine. You ARE remarkable and I am delighted to share a bit of this journey with you.
We all love you in the K house -- but Mama loves you more than I can ever say!
But his delight is in the law of the Farmer, and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
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