Archives for: February 2007
6 days on the road...
...and I'm a gonna make it home tonight...
Well, technically it's 4 months on the road, and I'll make it home 5 nights from now, but it's looking close.
We've been on a whirlwind missionary tour across the United States (well, half of them) since October 18. I had every intention of blogging here and there along the way. Did I forget I'd be in a car with 3 children all that time?
We have been busier than I could have imagined. We have always been the adventurous types, but I think we are more tired of traveling than we've ever been (it'll be over 10,000 miles by the time we get home).
But our hearts are full, and we feel so blessed to be called to this wacky way of life. We are so blessed to get to travel SO many places, and see the face of God in SO many people, and hear of His work in SO many ways. We have an amazing God; today I was amazed at how He created such a diverse state as Arizona. From south of Phoenix, where the hills of the Sonoran desert intersperse with flatlands and the sun shines warm, to Flagstaff, where there was snow on the ground, evergreens, and elk warning signs, to Page, where it is nothing but intensely beautiful red rock formations and wide vistas of almost-nothingness.
But His greatest beauty by FAR is what He has done in people's lives. There is nothing more satisfying than gazing into the face of someone who begins to cry as they tell you their testimony, as they tell you of how the Lord Jesus took them from death to life. The landscape of the redeemed is ever-varied, ever-radiant!
So thanks, Lord, for letting us have a little look-see into some of your workings we hadn't known about before. You are definitely the most awesome Creator, of this world, but more so of your Kingdom.
