….the wheels on the car go round and round, round and round, round and round….We are rolling down the road again, headed back to hot Oklahoma for week number two. It has been an incredible few weeks! Boys and Girls camp in Michigan was definitely a highlight. A great place and great people that we would love to spend two more weeks with. I think everyone would agree that girls definitely smell better than boys! WOW. There is so much to be said about taking showers and changing your socks. Water day at girl’s camp and the mud pit at boy’s camp topped the list of craziness. It was exciting to see so many young girls and boys getting their hearts all stirred up and drawing closer to the Lord.
We also went to Nashville and Clarksville, TN and Kings Mountain and Jacksonville, NC. Tennessee is always a treat! It feels like home when we get to go back and catch up with our old friends. None of us are getting younger, are we?! North Carolina was a wonderful new experience, but I will say that we are glad that was scheduled the week before Irene decided to pass through. We know that there have been a great deal of people that have been affected by the hurricane and for the next few weeks and months, so many people will be picking up the pieces from the destruction that it has caused and trying to put things back together. We will be keeping all of them in our prayers every day.
A milestone for mom and dad this morning…. we dropped Andrew off at Mid America Nazarene University. Like we mentioned earlier, we are not getting any younger. It just seems impossible that we are old enough to have a child in college. It was not easy for mom. (Everyone keeps trying to tell me that he is not going to miss his momma, but I know they are wrong! Big college boy or not, he’s gonna miss his momma! J) We drove away with a tremendous sense of peace knowing that he is where God wants him and in a place with people that we trust to guide him through this new journey in his life. We are excited to see what God has in store for him!
As we were driving through the peaceful, rolling hills of the plains today, we were mesmerized by an absolutely beautiful sunset. It never ceases to amaze us how we can feel the presence of the Lord through all the different pieces of His creation. It’s like pieces of a puzzle that all fit together and so perfectly express the attributes of His character. Today, the sunset reminded me of His faithfulness, His constancy every day in every detail. We have experienced it day after day through answered prayer, through the sale of our home, through the support that has been given through churches, family, and friends, through the safety of our travels, through college provisions for Andrew, and the list goes on and on. We are so grateful! Even in the midst of the organized chaos of transition, spending hours in the car, and sleeping in different beds every few nights, we have JOY and an undeniable, unending, unexplainable peace. We wouldn’t trade anything for being in the center of God’s will! Thank you for your prayers and support and encouragement! We love you all!!
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