Here & There
What do Panera Bread and South Asia have in common? Well, both are places that God has used to grow my relationship with Harry and give us a vision for how He intends to use us. Here we sit at Panera, the same Panera where Harry and I met for a DTR just 3 and a half years ago. We celebrate our 3rd year of marriage this week, but right now we share a table putting together support letters to invite people to join us in this calling God has given us to move to South Asia. And we wait as a potential home buyer tours our home trying not to worry about all of the imperfections and unfinished projects we left behind…so that we can move forward toward South Asia. Who but God could have known that we would be here at this time and remember so many answered prayers as we also look forward to the calling God has placed before us?
We actually survived the first showing of our house, but not without wondering, what did they think?? And now when we leave our house, we leave it prepared to show to a stranger and pray that God will bring the right person to buy this house, which will allow us to continue on in this process. This is a strange season. We are getting rid of stuff, but not everything. And we are looking toward the future, but not so much that we can’t do what needs to be done in the present.
A friend once said, “We can never be there. We’ll always be here.” He was jokingly responding to the age-old “Are we there yet??” question from his daughter when he said them. But as a former English teacher who appreciates the subtleties in words, I keep thinking about his comment.
May God help us to be here, where He has put us and wherever He leads us. So, for now, we are here and here is Nashville in our cute little house that has been such a blessing to us. And we are grateful.
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