one year

one year ago yesterday our exhausted, overwhelmed, sick, hot, and "very excited to be HOME" moving caravan pulled into KC. two 26ft penskes, 1 dead mini van, 1 living mini van, 1 Poppo, 1 Uncle Andrew, 1 Mama, 1 Daddy, 4 children, and more stuff than any family of six should have. it was a journey for the record books.

yesterday you would not believe what we were doing? oh, yes... MOVING! i will never move in july or august again, or we will no longer have family or friends who will speak to us. i so do not enjoy that feeling of living in chaos. however, right now my reality is a lot of internal and external chaos.

today i was reading through my very last post from KG and it had some nuggets of truth that i needed to hear,

"now we set our sights on kansas in a real and non- "in your dreams" kind of way. we have a commitment to fulfill. one that says, " i will honor my mother, love my mother, and respect my mother, as long as i can, with as much as i can". she gave me life, she laid her life down for me for 20 years, day and night. i owe her. we are not super heroes swooping down to save the day. we are walking by faith to lighten the load of many hands. we don't HAVE to... we WANT to.... we are excited and desire to do this. on thursday, one week from yesterday, we will load our 7, 5, 4, and 2 year old up and move to a more familiar place. we don't know what life will look like while we are there. there will be moments that are unclear and difficult. what we think is that mom needs us, but what is really true is that we desperately need her.  as always, God has amazing things for us there, God has things that He needs to work on IN us while we are there, God has people who will make our life richer there waiting for us, God has moments that will change our lives forever while we are there. He is good, ALWAYS good. in the hard, in the easy, in the unknown, in the known, in the glorious, in the mundane, in the old and in the new. He has plans for us, for all of us. He is to be high and lifted up. He is to be worshiped, adored, and obeyed. He is holy. He is continually working on our behalf to mold and make us into HIS IMAGE. The longer we fight, refuse, and resist His love, the longer we lack peace and true rest.  We will miss Him if we don't know Him.  And He is ALL that is worth knowing."

happy moving wherever you are,
~s