Every July we find ourselves meditating on God's grace. You see, in July of 2006 we first arrived in this country and with each passing year we become more aware of our own weaknesses and more stunned by the goodness of God. This year we celebrated enduring for 11 years working cross-culturally. But enduring is hardly the right word. Yes, there have been many difficult moments. We have seen two teams fall apart. We have seen many friends move on for a variety of reasons. We have endured our fair share of smoke, heat, and power outages. But honestly, we cannot claim anything as coming from ourselves (2 Corinthians 3:4-6). It is unfathomable to me that 11 years later we are still here and doing reasonably well emotionally and physically. Why, Lord, are we of all people still here? We have seen so many high-quality, amazing, diligent, and more qualified people come and go. All we can come back to is that God has sovereign plans that make no sense to us. We just keep walking, trust...
The stories and thoughts of living in between two homes.