{"id":1068,"date":"2017-08-08T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2017-08-08T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:23:10","slug":"saying-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/2017\/08\/08\/saying-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying “Goodbye”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As missionaries, we are\u00a0 often left in the position of saying goodbye to people we’ve just met and those we love the most.\u00a0 As we draw nearer to our return to Brazil, the goodbyes begin.\u00a0 This last week we visited my dearest friend from college (no photo of us because we didn’t dress up for each other…and lets face it, since we are nearing 40, we want to have makeup on when we take a pic! \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 ).\u00a0 This\u00a0was our last time to see them while here in the States and so we\u00a0 said goodbye.\u00a0 Goodbye not just as we left their house, but goodbye to even the chance<\/em> of seeing them for the next 4 years.\u00a0 Although we didn’t cry on that actual day, I have a feeling that tears will be shed at some point.\u00a0 Goodbyes are hard.\u00a0 And not just for Joel\u00a0& I.\u00a0 This year the kids have really made friends and\u00a0made the USA their home as well.\u00a0 We are so\u00a0thankful that they feel like this is their home.\u00a0 And that Brazil is their home as well.\u00a0 But having your heart in two places\u00a0is hard.\u00a0 There will be days where homesickness for one place or the other is difficult.\u00a0 On those days we will remind them (and ourselves) to “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!” (Ps 27:14)\u00a0 And someday we will ‘all get to heaven, and oh what a day that will be!’<\/p>\n

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As missionaries, we are\u00a0 often left in the position of saying goodbye to people we’ve just met and those we love the most.\u00a0 As we draw nearer to our return to Brazil, the goodbyes begin.\u00a0 This last week we visited my dearest friend from college (no photo of us because we didn’t dress up for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnos360","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}