Be Thou My Vision

How can it be over so soon?   After all the change that 2017 brought, we started this year planning our first season as "Love Goes".  I spent weeks planning our travel itinerary, securing reservations at campgrounds, and making contact with places we would be serving.  Now here it is the end September, the trip is over, and we are back at our home base in Monroe, Louisiana.  We have been home for a week processing all that we have seen, heard, and experienced over the last few months.  I just now feel like I'm ready to try and communicate what a blessing and joy this new role has been and how grateful we are for those that have come along side us to make this possible.   We began this journey on April 12th when we left Monroe.  We traveled north with stops in TN, NC, and VA to visit family along to way.  Then it was on to Huntington, Massachusetts, to serve at The Retreat at Norwich Lake, a ministry of the Timothy Hill Children's Ranch....

We’ve done this all before.  And I still think God may have confused us with some adventurous, change-loving folks.  We never imagined that our lives would be so full of change, uncertainty, and oh so many steps of faith.  When we were young we thought we would get married, have babies, and live in the same town where we were born and grew up.  We pictured raising our kids, growing older, and retiring to enjoy the fruits of our labor.  We never really seriously pictured life outside what was familiar and comfortable.  Not once did we consider that life would take us to NY to live and work on a Children’s Ranch, to Mexico to do medical missions for several years, and then to Africa to do the same.  And we certainly never expected that in addition to abundant joy and blessings we would experience so much heartache, disappointment, and loss along the way.  And yet, here we are in a new season, leaving the familiar, beginning a...