"We're really doin' this man"!

On the way down to Homer everyone fell asleep while I was driving and in the quite moments by myself I was struck anew that we're really doing this thing. Kind of like in Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd tells Harry “We’re really doin’ this man!” as they drive off in the wiener car. Well, not really like that but maybe even less normal than Lloyd and Harry… Yesterday’s drive was just one more thing that felt like we needed to get done in order to make the summer and our transition up here reality. We need a good boat on the lake and in order to get a good boat out on the lake we needed to pull it down to Homer so that it can make its way up the water shed and into Lake Clark. Well…in the quite moments of the sleepers in the car I was struck by how stinking cool all of this is. How come out of all of the billions of people on the planet do we get to be the ones to do this? It is not easy for sure and I guess not very many would actually want to do this but WE are the ones wired weird enough to be doing this. That is cool!

Dinner on the Homer Spit

After we dropped the boat off (into to dirt lot with no fence or any think to keep it in the dirt lot…felt weird leaving it) we tried to walk on the beach while the tide was out but the 30mph wind and the 40 degree weather kept it short. We went to our motel and minus the sketchy run-down trailer park like look of the place we walked in and the kids ran to the window and ohh’ed and ahhh’ed at the view, which was spectacular. What an awesome place. The volcanic mountains run right down into the water, it is really not worth the pictures we took, the awesomeness of it is lost. It’s one of those places where the grandeur just sucks you in.  

At dinner we had one of those family times that make your heart swell.  We sat long after they took the check and quit filling our water glasses and talked about our dreams together and the awesomeness of God in making a place like this and of the sadness of leaving our life in Texas and of how much we missed Josh being apart from us this week.  It was sweet.  It made Julie’s eyes leak…

View from our motel room

I head out tomorrow with Sam and Zach to open the house.  I know there are friends in Port Alsworth who want to see us and that’s nice. I am looking forward to being in our own home again and in a place where our kids can be in their own space.  Thankful for our travels and the abundant provision in our journey to this point.  God is so good to us! 

If I can't write often it is because we are limited in our internet.  There is a promise that it is coming, but for now please know that we covet your prayer.  Please be praying for the cadet trip May 25-June 8, I want the Lord to deeply move in the lives of the men coming.  Pray for the teaching to impact not just the great experience of being in Alaska but that their lives will be markedly different from this point on.  Pray also for safety and good leadership on my part.  Thank you for standing with us!  "We're really doin' this man! We're headed to Aspen!"...Or Port Alsworth!...