We feel the season changing. Okay, yeah the air is cooler. We're having those gorgeous autumn sunsets. The bay is often glassy.
But that's not what I'm talking about. We've been in a season of waiting. Sure, we've been able to travel quite a bit to Europe to get our ministry off the ground. But we have a goal -- to move to Ireland full-time so that we can conduct our work in the way it deserves. This goal has seemed somewhat elusive. For one thing, we've been working to raise our support for more than 2 years now. For another thing, the exchange rate between the dollar and the euro has kept us at the same percentage of needed support for a while even though we've taken on more pledges.
God's timing has been perfect from the beginning of this process, and we know that up to this point we wouldn't have been ready. God had some work to do to prepare us and our daughter Molly for our relocation. Molly is in her second year as a violin performance major at the University of West Florida and actually living out on her own now!
We are so proud of her -- her resourcefulness, her levelheadedness. She is much more focused than I would have imagined a child of mine would be. Just look at her parents. We weren't anything like this in college. She must have got it from my dad.
Yep, we're a little proud.
So... the change of seasons...
We are starting to sense that things are about to begin moving ahead for us. Nothing concrete -- just small indicators and inklings really. It's like the wind is shifting and a new season is underway.
We are so stoked (is that so 90's, or what?) about getting to Ireland full-time and have a lot of people in Ireland rooting for us. Just gotta keep our nose to the grindstone and get the rest of our support raised.
We'll do our part and then stand back and watch God do His thing. It's His baby, after all. We're just along for the ride.
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