About a week and half ago, I, Sherri, was in tears. I couldn’t stop crying my eyes out as we sat in traffic. We were on our way to a spontaneous date Dom had planned to look at the blossoms on the fruit trees he was so fascinated with (since he has never seen spring before).
I wasn’t crying about the traffic, or the fact that it was cloudy weather for our date and not good for photo-taking. I was sobbing because it had finally clicked with Dom and I that the June World Race trip wasn’t what God has in store for us.
It wasn’t just that Dom’s visas for each country were going to be more difficult than we had imagined, or that our church wasn’t going to be able to support us, and we didn’t know where the rest of the money would come from. We know that if it was God’s will, He could work out all those silly details with the snap of His fingers for His glory.
It was that we had heard once again from godly people we respect, and at that moment it clicked that it was God speaking through them, that the World Race is an amazing trip, but doesn’t match what God wants next for us.
After months and months of not feeling total peace about the trip, wondering if we really were going to raise the money, if it was really what God had next for us, and never feeling completely sure, He finally answered our prayers with closing the door swiftly and gently.
It wasn’t easy to accept that, but living for God isn’t meant to be easy. I was in mourning all week, crying, miserable, and upset, but also, at peace that God had spoken, and eager to follow.
We don’t know where He is leading yet, but we do know that He is leading us so far to use the support money we have raised to go on the Haiti World Race trip this June. We are so very excited to get to go and see what God has been up to in Haiti and join Him in that work.
To our team, we are sad to have to say good-bye to you all of course, and will be praying for you as you go on this adventure. We know God will do wonders through you all for His glory. Thanks for letting us be part of your lives.
Love,
Dominic and Sherri
