our last weekend here
This has been such an emotional roller coaster summer! There have been several different life changes that have taken place and book ending it all with us moving out of state has been so rough.
For us, this move is bittersweet. We are very, very excited about what this move will mean for us. We're not going lie. Its very exciting. What we've seen of Washington, we've loved and even felt "home sick" when we left. We know God is wherever we go and we know He is guiding every step we take, so that part is the "sweet" part. However, leaving all of our family and so many of our amazingly wonderful friends, and our church... that's going to be the "bitter" part. That's the part that makes you want to say "Just kidding! We're not really moving!"
This past week has been a week of very little sleep, a lot of cleaning, purging, organizing, dumping, packing, planning and then ended with a ton of good byes.
We began today at church, saying good bye to our church family. I'm heading off to bed and I don't want to cry again, so for the sake of being "tear free" I'll keep it short and sweet.
It was rough. We've been immensely blessed there and have grown so much and have learned so much in the 3 years we've been members there... its just hard to swallow. Driving out of the parking lot today was like leaving a huge piece of my heart behind on the cement.
We had a nice lunch with my family and our good friend Peter and thus began the emotions. When I had to say good bye to my oldest sister who lives in LA, it suddenly hit me. "This week is going to be so hard." I think when I was hugging her I said something like "I don't even want to say good bye. I'm not ready for this." Like Jesus' return, I'd like to just sneak away like a thief in the night. :)
I want to journal all this down, because I know I'm not going to remember a lot of it and will probably come back and go "oh yeah... that's right." I'd also like to have this written down to pass along to any of our kids that might move away someday.
I'm so thankful to God for the life He's given us here. We don't leave CA with an attitude of "so glad to be getting out of this place and away from these people." You guys have no idea how much you will be missed by us. We look forward to our visits back and seeing many of you during those visits!
Our prayer for our lives in Washington is very much the same as our Pastor prayed for us today... that God would be glorified in our lives there, that we would be seekers of His Kingdom and servants to His glory and that as a family, we would grow and proper in the Lord and nothing else. We don't want fame or riches - we just want to faithfully serve our Great God and be lights in a dark place; sharing His free and powerfully saving Gospel to all who are lost and need a Savior.
Pray for us as we start packing up our home and making the drive up North. Also please pray that our home will sell quickly!
See you on the flip side :)
For us, this move is bittersweet. We are very, very excited about what this move will mean for us. We're not going lie. Its very exciting. What we've seen of Washington, we've loved and even felt "home sick" when we left. We know God is wherever we go and we know He is guiding every step we take, so that part is the "sweet" part. However, leaving all of our family and so many of our amazingly wonderful friends, and our church... that's going to be the "bitter" part. That's the part that makes you want to say "Just kidding! We're not really moving!"
This past week has been a week of very little sleep, a lot of cleaning, purging, organizing, dumping, packing, planning and then ended with a ton of good byes.
We began today at church, saying good bye to our church family. I'm heading off to bed and I don't want to cry again, so for the sake of being "tear free" I'll keep it short and sweet.
It was rough. We've been immensely blessed there and have grown so much and have learned so much in the 3 years we've been members there... its just hard to swallow. Driving out of the parking lot today was like leaving a huge piece of my heart behind on the cement.
We had a nice lunch with my family and our good friend Peter and thus began the emotions. When I had to say good bye to my oldest sister who lives in LA, it suddenly hit me. "This week is going to be so hard." I think when I was hugging her I said something like "I don't even want to say good bye. I'm not ready for this." Like Jesus' return, I'd like to just sneak away like a thief in the night. :)
I want to journal all this down, because I know I'm not going to remember a lot of it and will probably come back and go "oh yeah... that's right." I'd also like to have this written down to pass along to any of our kids that might move away someday.
I'm so thankful to God for the life He's given us here. We don't leave CA with an attitude of "so glad to be getting out of this place and away from these people." You guys have no idea how much you will be missed by us. We look forward to our visits back and seeing many of you during those visits!
Our prayer for our lives in Washington is very much the same as our Pastor prayed for us today... that God would be glorified in our lives there, that we would be seekers of His Kingdom and servants to His glory and that as a family, we would grow and proper in the Lord and nothing else. We don't want fame or riches - we just want to faithfully serve our Great God and be lights in a dark place; sharing His free and powerfully saving Gospel to all who are lost and need a Savior.
Pray for us as we start packing up our home and making the drive up North. Also please pray that our home will sell quickly!
See you on the flip side :)
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