Visiting Santa, sharing my heart

Blogging needs regular updates, right? We should share all the good things happening with our journey, right? right.

Well, sometimes this journey of our family is not all about the packing and the material things we are selling, giving or tossing away. This journey includes trust, patience, hope, rest and anticipation. At least, those are the things I am striving daily for....trust that all the finances will be here, hope that our vision of building a new orphanage will happen, patience while we are waiting, rest in knowing we are doing the right thing, and anticipation for the day we arrive in Uganda. All of those things are tied up in my heart. We believe God is leading us on this path, HE requires our trust, HE has the appointed day already in His heart and mind, HE gives us hope for tomorrow and rest for today. During this holiday season, I felt that familiar melancholy wave come over me. For the first time, I realized exactly what brings that feeling every year......I can't give enough. I would love to give to every friend, sister, brother, parent, cousin, niece, nephew, and every family I hear about on the radio that just don't have enough. I realized I had a sadness that I couldn't be with every family member at the same time. Through this journey we are on, I have asked God to give me an extra measure of trust, patience, hope, rest and anticipation. HE is the giver of His only Son, THAT is why we have hope. THAT is why we can trust, wait and build ourselves up in HIS strength. Thank you for joining our journey through prayer.....it means a lot to us to have prayer warriors holding up our arms. Thank you for letting me share my heart while on this journey to build brick and stone. HE is also building in our hearts.

On a lighter note, we took David and Courtney to see Santa. He was a patient, child-loving Santa. David felt really older this year and sat on his lap for the picture......just WHERE did the past 8 years go???  After their visit, I told Santa that David and Courtney would not see him here next year, they are moving to Africa! Then, Santa got up and came to talk to me. He has a friend that builds schools in Africa. No, I did not tell Santa what I want for Christmas....tickets maybe?