Some laughter
Some prayers
Some silence
Some tears

Some smiles
Some work
Some packing
Some heart pulls

Some coffee
Some worship
Some meals
Some hardship

Some throw aways
Some give aways
Some new beginnings
Some old memories

Some new friends saying hello
Some old friends saying goodbye
Some days left at home
Some days until we go

We serve
Some big GOD
Who is turning this all into

Something Beautiful.

Lots of questions from people...
when do you go and when do you return?
what are you packing?
how is this going to work with your ministry?
where are you going to be living?
why Africa?
who is going with you?
what about your house? your dogs? your jobs? your cars?

And then there comes the prayer warriors.
The ones who take time to simply say,
HOORAY on a fb status
WE LOVE YOU and APPRECIATE YOU in a handwritten card
I WILL MISS YOU on a love note left on our front door
BE SAFE with MUCH LOVE in a fb message
I WILL MISS YOU in a text

Thank you for all of your concerns~ those who need answers and those who simply edify.  To all of you, here's my response:

Thou has put gladness in my heart.
Do not be anxious.
His grace is sufficient.
Don't worry about tomorrow.
We make plans, God orders our steps.
You will know them by their love for one another.

One day a boy met a girl.
And he ran before the school bell rang and handed her a bouquet of beautiful hand cut roses wrapped in tin foil.  And she smiled.
And he went to war in the Middle East and she went to college on the East Coast.
And she saw his picture in a newspaper so she wrote him a letter and he got it in the middle of the desert and he wrote her back.  And he smiled.
And months passed and they faced their battles and both survived.
And one day before he was to return to a faraway land he came home and rescued her.
And she got her smile back.
And he brought her to San Francisco to a beautiful spot and extended his hand and asked for her heart. And she smiled.
And they met at the altar at high noon before God and their families and got married.
And she got the first twenty years of marriage with a home sweet home, three babies and german shepherds.
And as their family grew they learned how much God loved them and they learned how to love one another.
And now, it's the second twenty years of marriage, his twenty.
And they are still learning about God's love and still in love, still smiling at each other.
And one day, a prayer they had been praying for eleven years came true.
And this is when their story begins...

We are moving to Kampala, Uganda, Africa.

"Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations..."
Psalm 2:8