As I wrote in the last post, we have been farewelled out of
Bolivia and now are living in the in-between time until we are able to go to
Liberia. These weeks have been filled with travel and family time. We spent
Thanksgiving in Indiana with our extended family, Christmas and New Year’s in
Texas with our daughter Heather and her husband Jeremy, and now we are in
Oregon staying with our son Daniel and his family for about three weeks. Next
we will be off to Fresno for the month of February and finally, we hope, to
Liberia in March. Our arrival date there will be determined by the current
state of the Ebola crisis and the brothers’ readiness to receive us. While I don't particularly enjoy living in the in-between, it is a necessary part of life sometimes. I am discovering that it also requires a new sort of trust in the Lord. If I was inclined to sermonize I would say something about we all are living in the in-between as we await the coming of the Lord. But I will resist and leave that up to you.
Some of the highlights of these past weeks were:
Visiting the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas at the sight of
the JFK assassination.
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| Window where Oswald shot from |
The publication of our daughter Heather’s new novel.
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| Heather and Jeremy Neill |
Getting to meet our new granddaughter and having lots of
grandparent time with both our grandkids as well as time with all four of our
kids.
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| I got to dedicate our granddaughter Maerah |
