We set a new family record the weekend before last. 10 people and 1 dog stayed in our home over the course of 3 days! It was mayhem. Beautiful, glorious, meaningful mayhem. We're definitely going to need more sheets. Or a bigger washing machine. Or a dryer that is something other than a clothesline during rainy season.
We left the house early Monday morning with friends still there to follow through on previously made plans to register our new vehicle in the nearby city from which it came. Although we'd already purchased the vehicle we'd been informed that we would probably be unable to keep it due to difficulties in the registration requirements. It was no small process and is fully deserving of it's own blog post, including how J was required to pay the previous owners outstanding speeding tickets before we were able to register the car. For now, let's suffice to say, we arrived home 16 hours later with full ownership of a vehicle we really love and upon which we have already become very dependent (in a good way).
J spent the next few days looking for the ever-elusive-luxury-item known as seat belts. After (finally!) securing and installing them, we spent another 1/2 day purchasing the infinitely-more-luxurious-item known as car seats. Both of which are completely optional despite the fact that the speed limit is 75 mph between here and our destination city.
So with seat belts and car seats installed and car ownership secured, off we drove in the direction of our future. Like somehow everything we've trained for, and waited for, and everything we've endured, every hardship we've walked through, every sacrifice, every decision, years of preparation, countless tears, and tiny victories, all have been leading up to this moment.
We were not disappointed. Those who hope in Him never are.
The air is clean. The mountains are breathtaking. The view is indescribable. But it is the needs that are truly staggering.
It's 2014. How can there still be so many who still haven't heard?
So we did more research and we began to make plans. We asked for wisdom. We sought wise counsel. We looked at apartments. We made inquiries at schools. We walked and we talked to each other and to Him. Him who made them and the language they speak (still unwritten with more tones than I want to count.) Him who made them and the mountains they trek. (Mountains that separate them from the rest.)
In the end we were quite surprised by what we found. Our plan has always been to go where no-one else was or wanted to go, like a spiritual star trek. We'd envisioned an opportunity to pioneer. What we found instead was an opportunity to partner.
He met us there for He is there already.
Already moving.
Already stirring.
Already drawing hearts to himself.
He is at work already.
He is already there.
"Will you come?"
yes.
"Will you join me?"
yes.
"The cost will be high."
we know.
"Higher than it's been before."
we are ready. use us up. pour us out. we are yours.
*trying something new. this is a picture gallery so it should change when you click on it. Let me know what you think. Thanks for checking our blog and remembering our family.