There's something
about a little bit of craziness that makes life sweet.
2015 was definitely
a crazy year. It started in Houston with a 3 month old and no place to call our
own.
It continued to
Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Vegas, San Diego, and up the Pacific
Highway to Portland.
We headed east,
stopping to visit friends in Illinois, before finding ourselves back in
Virginia, and then down to Georgia again, before traveling on my birthday to
Dallas and what would be a place to call our own for three months.
After a long and
awesome and tiring and fun PD trip, we turned our attention to packing up our
lives and getting ready to head across the world with an infant in tow and one
in utero.
We went to POC which
was all kinds of craziness and a chapter I am thankful I will never have to
revisit. (The PD trip across the States was a craziness that I'm glad I have a
three year break in between but excited to do again!)
We ended POC in a
month of village living, which was good but not ideal. It's hard to spend a
month in a place where the only objective to being there is to spend a month in
a place.
And then we moved
into Madang town. We got to meet and meet back up with the members of the
Branch. We have an apartment. Which was craziness trying to move in and prep
for Christmas at the same time! But it's been good.
It's all been good!
It's been a fantastic year that we would not have been able to manage had God
not been so good through it all.
And we're super
excited for next year.
Next year we have a
couple language groups to consider working with long-term. We have a trip to
Australia (hopefully)to have our second child. We'll have about 4 months of
staying in one place (hopefully) which is the longest we've been still since
June 2014. And then we'll conclude the year with 3 months (hopefully) in the
village we'll be working with long-term (hopefully).
The future has so
much uncertainty, which is fairly typical of the future.
Adding that to my
saying, "there are two constants in the life of a missionary:
miscommunication and change", it's extremely likely that things are going
to be different than we envision.
But there's another
constant in life and that is that God is good. Yesterday, today, and forever.
And no matter what changes go down, He's already seen it coming and has a plan
that glorifies His name.
Hopefully we'll like
the plan, but even if we don't, it's not our place to seek our own interests,
but to obey Him. And He is so so good, that more often than not, we find great
joy in the way His plan works out in the end, even if it's stressful in the meantime.
We are super excited
about the New Year and super excited to be working for a good God.
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