For the past year, our team had been set in terms of who would be going. And though it seemed set in our eyes, in g’s eyes, he had other plans.
Author: Alex H (Page 6 of 9)
Not really. In the past few days, there’s been a mixture of weather patterns that we’ve experienced. On one day it was cold (like SF-weather). On another day it was mildly warm with a breeze mixed in. Another day it was windy and the air was filled with these giant cotton balls (from the willow trees EA planted years ago), which if you were not careful could easily get caught in your hair, eyes or sometimes into your mouth. And just yesterday we had a major sandstorm that covered the entire sky making the color of the afternoon sky dull orange (see pics here). It made quite an interesting walk with our family with the wind and sand flying everywhere. We even had to use our “rain guard” for our stroller to protect Haddon from the elements.
We expected these weather patterns, but we thought it was interesting that it happened in such a short period of time. The constant weather changes is a pretty accurate description of what has been taking place in the past two weeks. So let me update you on what’s been going on!
Here are some more thoughts as we were preparing our move overseas:
As much as this blog is about our family, we also want to let people know about the other brothers and sisters who are coming with us in the move to EA. It is an understated privilege to have a small group of people coming with us. They provide us with not only fellowship and friendship, but also extra hands to accomplish our objective. We’re excited to work alongside them and we hope you’re excited to meet and support them with your thoughts!
We shaped the questions to center on their relationship with our home fellowship. As part of obedience to the GC, we want to emphasize the importance of this relationship. Whether going or sending, every believer is to participate in the GC.
In thinking about this major move for our family, I picture a bunch of plates spinning on poles and I’m frantically spinning each plate so that they won’t fall off the poles. In calculating our move overseas, it just seems like there are a lot of moving parts, but nothing to slow them down until we actually arrive. 