Journey "home"

Summer has given up her fight to the warm colors and cool temperatures of fall in America.  Today, as our plane left Greenville, SC, Cadence marveled as she was looking down on the clouds underneath her feet, "The clouds are down us, they are not up us."   The two day journey back to the other side of the ocean, dragging a three year old, three carry-ons and 8 footlockers has begun.  It has been such a sweet summer of priceless memories, and it is sad to see our summer end, knowing that it will be around 3 years before we pass this way again.  Three years until our feet touch American soil and our faces feel a temperature below 70 degrees.  Three years until the leaves change colors again and we scramble to find our sweaters.    And three years is a long time when you are stuck in a perpetual summer on the equator, days away from family and friends on the other side of the earth.  As we leave the "first world" and all of its comforts, including the people that we love, our hearts are heavy. Yet our call has not changed, even though the temperature here in America has.  Please pray for our safety and our patience as we travel with a very active little one.  Pray for favor in the eyes of the immigration officer that we will meet upon arrival in Indonesia…that he would not cause trouble for us regarding our temporary visa and our truckload of luggage.    

Fairy Cadence at age 18 mo

& this year at age 3