Sunset Tour...

We are settling for the academic year back in College Station.  The Lord has shown great grace to us in giving us a furnished house to rent for the academic year... some of our good friends who are overseas with CRU are renting us their home through May.  It is a great grace to us that we have the ability to settle in for the academic year instead of working to sort and sell and put the house on the market now.  Hard as it was to get our belongings out and sorted in a massive sell-off in April it is SO much better on this side of things for sure. 

We cleaned out our storage unit where we had some family heirloom kind of things and totes full of clothes.  The second round of sorting is over and what we have now is loaded in a 7’X12’ cargo trailer so that we aren’t paying for a storage unit.  The limbo of being here and looking ahead sort of wears on me at times but the reality is that this is a good place for our family to be for the sunset of our time in College Station; after being here for 10 years the leaving is bitter-sweet to say the least. 

The thermometer was a reality check as we rolled into town!  Never ready for 108 degrees!

This past weekend Julie and I celebrated 17 years of marriage.  We went out to dinner with the two of us earlier in the weekend.  But as our kids have grown and our family has matured, we wanted to celebrate as a whole family. 

Here is the toast to us, lemons and water.  It was fun to sit and talk about what we value together as a family.  One of the kids said something along the lines of “I like us because we are so different than anyone else.”  I asked why and the reply wasn’t a surprise…”Alaska has made us different.”  True that.   

 

 

We know many people have been praying for us over the past months.  Please continue!  We are using this time to finish raising support as we look ahead to living and doing ministry in rural Alaska.  Housing is a question too as to where we will live in the months that Lake Clark isn’t passable by boat and before the ice is solid enough to cross on snowmobile; it has been a stretch of faith for me as I learn in a new way to grow in faith by not having all the answers right now.  The Lord is teaching me to be able to just rest without all the answers.  Not wanting to dismiss the lesson...