So it hasn't snowed even a flake all winter until yesterday, let's just say that we were happy it wasn't tonight. Had that been the case we would have been sweating bullets. There is a quite important flight for us to catch tomorrow morning, Tony is coming at 5:30am to pick us up and take the hourish drive to Heathrow for the first traveling leg of this journey. I say traveling leg because the journey has been going now in earnest since September, it has been adventure for sure. We've been building up to this trip to America for a while now, there are meetings on Tuesday the day after we land, then another important one on Thursday. So today as the temps rose we were quite relieved and then we saw on the Delta website that flights were all on time and Heathrow was doing what it should which is have planes take off and land. Tomorrow at this time we'll be in Goshen staying the night at our home away from home, it not only is an ocean away it feels like a whole world away.
During this process we did not expect to move house, but that has also been part of this equation. We were told that we had to move out of our amazing 500 year old house right in the centre of the village because the house is going to be sold. That is fair enough as we knew the day would come, the timing though has presented some challenges as you might expect. We have looked at one house throughout the last couple of months and yesterday we were able to give the estate agent our paperwork and deposit. In reality it has been the only option in the village where we can continue to live with Lizzie and have the space we need for our family to increase.
That's the amazing thing, we could not have stayed where we are presently and this new place will be perfect for a family with a fenced in back garden and all. As was written 'the best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray' in this case the plans of us men (not gender specific:) have gone astray but the plans that God has had for us is much better than ours.
Our bags are packed now, it only took an hour, I guess that comes from the experience of knowing what 23 kilos or 50 pounds feels like, and from knowing what we need in America. We also realize that when going to Indiana we always come back with more than we left with so leaving space is a good idea. A concern one has with packing is what did you forget, in this case it's the double check again do we have that form, or is the passport in that pocket of the bag as though it grew legs and hopped back into the desk drawer since looking 10 minutes earlier. I suppose that's nerves, probably quite normal for this kind of trip. There is much unknown in this journey which could lead to fear and in all reality probably will. My friend Merv and I were talking tonight after the worship gathering we had been at and he asked if we had fear on this journey. I said yes but we discovered that we know to take that fear, the arms of the Lord who can take that fear and turn it on itself and into faith. To wrap this up before we get ready to hit the sack, tomorrow we face new challenges, fear will probably try to sneak in, but we know Who is rudder of this ship, the One whose plans don't oft or ever go astray.
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