In the middle

We are about half way through the “sunset tour”. It is challenging to be waiting to go.  We feel at times like we are stuck in the middle of two great things, we still love where we are and yet we have great anticipation of where the Lord is taking us as a family. This is the year to prepare to move so we are steadily checking things off the lists; eye doctor, physicals (are you really supposed to do those every year?), raising additional support to live in the AK bush, braces, visits…well you know, most of those things that should be done anyway and don't get done until there is a real need to get on it.  

Part of the WFR class is to
take turns playing
the wounded guy
 

In prep for the move I have taken some really cool outdoor leadership/certification classes over the past months. I am actually sitting in a Starbucks in CO studying (is writing a blog considered studying?) for my Wilderness First Responder class. The WFR has been SO good…who would have guessed that a kid who fainted when I saw the smallest drop of blood would be loving the idea of knowing how to treat an open pneumothorax (…it cost us a lot of time and money to learn that word, thought I’d use it at least once!) in the backcountry. It is not an easy class, I study most of the hours I am out of class and cramming all of the content into 80 hours over 9 days is fast and furious but I’m enjoying the challenge. 



LifeLines Guide school class

A couple of months ago I also took a guide class certifying me to be a “backcountry trip leader”, pending the passing of this WFR class—which means I better get studding... All stuff that I probably should have done 10 years ago when we started doing outdoor leadership trips, but it was never on my radar until now. I am so thankful that the Lord has spared us from any serious injuries over the past 10 years.  It is not because we have done everything right all the time!   It is nothing more than His mercy!

The family is well…the reality of moving away from friends and pulling up roots from the past decade is becoming more of a reality.  While we are all kind of ready to get on with the move we are also enjoying the time with people that we care deeply about.  It is one of those weird tensions in life that I am not sure how to deal with some times.  

If you think about it pray for the ability to finish our support, we are at 25% of our needed goal.  Pray for our fam to be loving eachother and walking through this transition with faith.  Thanks! I'll be better at writting too, had some problems with blogger that I think are finally solved--thanks Stevo...