Becoming

November 17, 2016

I can’t believe we are on the brink of leaving for Tanzania. It feels unreal, yet a little too real at times. We are 54 days out, but who’s counting? Some days I look at that dwindling number and I am filled with such excitement. Other days my heart pounds and feels anxious and full […]

Embracing the Wait

September 28, 2016

I remember writing in my journal, talking to friends and partners, and blogging about our new season of waiting. Although I was trying to convince myself and others that I was okay with the wait, I am not really sure that I truly was. I wanted to go to Tanzania. Now. As time has passed […]

Dear Discouraged Missionary…

September 22, 2016

Dear Discouraged Missionary, I read about you last week. Or I should say, someone who may be a lot like you! My husband and I have been reading through the Bible chronologically for over a year now. We have recently reached the book of Jeremiah. Can I be honest and say that as I started […]

An Ocean of Lessons

August 24, 2016

I have been meaning to blog for a couple of weeks now. Life has been, well, life. Busy. Hard. Fun. Sorrowful. Sweet. I am sure you can relate. Through it all, the Father has been patiently teaching my heart. He, after all, is very kind. Recently, we have, from afar, […]

Rest for the Weary

July 27, 2016

So, as you know, we got the news a week and a half ago that we would not be leaving for Tanzania until the beginning of January 2017. That Sunday we knew that we had reached our breaking point and we just needed to get away, refresh and refuel so that we could press on […]

Half-Packed Boxes

July 17, 2016

After about 7 weeks of waiting and praying we finally got our answer. Not yet. When we finished up our year and a half of missionary training in Missouri we, in faith, decided to make our leave date August 2016. At the time it seemed rather crazy and unattainable. At that time we had no […]

My Thoughts on Waiting

July 5, 2016

It. Is. Hard. As you know, we are still waiting to find out the status of our work permits for Tanzania. There is now a new process for acquiring work permits, but even before we knew about that there were a few other complications as well. So, needless to say, it’s been a slow process. […]

Duty or Delight?

June 19, 2016

We have now spent about 3 years in full-time preparation mode for living our lives overseas (and several more even before that). With our hopeful departure date less than 7 weeks away, you can imagine we are pretty busy. We have most of our luggage, we are beginning to hoe through our belongings, and we […]

To New York and Back

June 15, 2016

Life feels a little bit like a whirlwind right now! We are steaming ahead at 100 miles an hour and I have a feeling it may be like that until we leave for Tanzania in August. Praying for a little reprieve in July though! The end of May began the start of a month+ of […]

We May Never Know

May 9, 2016

Tuesday morning came all too soon. Sweet Gideon was scheduled for a 7:30 surgery, which meant being up at the UVA Children’s Hospital at 6am. Since we live about 2 hours from there, we found ourselves crawling out of bed at 2:45am – talk about rough! We were blessed to have our soon to be nanny, […]