Wow has it been a seriously long/crazy week! I’m sure you have all
heard or figured out by now that Carrie and I won’t be joining you on
the Race next year. First of all, we really want to apologize to any
and all of you that we didn’t have a chance to say good-bye to. We
came down to the lodge to give out hugs but it just kind of turned out
to be an awkward time for good-byes b/c you were all heading out into
the woods! So we just wanted to take this opportunity to share with
you before our blog gets shut down and we don’t have access to you guys
via the blogs any more.
So to start off, we want to tell you how incredibly much we miss all of
you. It really is quite unbelievable how close we grew to you all over
the course of like 4 days! But we also wanted to share with you guys
what all we were going through with the Race and all. So I guess
basically we just really had a hard time at training camp, not with any
of you guys at all, but we really just didn’t feel at peace about
going. Training camp was really a roller coaster ride for the both of
us and when it came down to commitment time, we just weren’t quite
there. And we didn’t feel like it was fair for us to not be totally
committed, nor was it fair to you guys or the WR for us to not be
totally committed. So we didn’t commit. And honestly we left camp
Wednesday night completely broken. We went on to Atlanta mostly bc we
didn’t really want to go back home and we had already reserved a hotel
for Sunday night in Atlanta for our anniversary so we just decided to
go on to ATL and we pretty much cried the whole way there. We
literally really missed all of T-Squad by the time we hit the
interstate. And we were really down for the next couple of days about
all of it. We were frustrated because since this past June we had all
of 2011 planned out, ya know we’d be going a mission trip all year. So
that didn’t work out and we were hurt and frustrated and confused and
who all knows what else. Well we have finally made it back home and we
are becoming more and more at peace with our decision. But we are also
realizing more and more how deeply we connected with all of you.
Honestly since we have been married we haven’t really been able to plug
into a community of believers our age that are crazy and fun and love
Jesus (or you could read that as ‘we have no friends’ haha). But
seriously we are realizing how much we have really missed that kind of
community and we so had it with all of you and we are so missing it!
You guys all have such beautiful hearts and intriguing personalities
and we know God is going to do big things next year with all of you.
We are going to be reading all of your blogs on a regular basis and
hope to keep contact with you as you all are on the race. For real for
real for real if you ever come through Clarksville please come see us
and stay with us and let us feed you (Carrie is quite the chef). We
will be praying for you and are really looking forward to seeing and
reading how God is going to use you!
If there is anything we can do to help any of you in any way please let
us know! We have a blog that we update fairly recently with going ons
in the Chance household, so if you are interested in keeping up with us
at all you can find it here: http://nathanandcorinne.blogspot.com/.
So bottom line you guys all are awesome, we really believe in what you
all are doing, we totally miss you all and we will be praying for you!
Look at the nations and watch, and be utterly amazed. For I am going
to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you
were told.
– Habakkuk 1:5
Love and Peace,
Nathan and Carrie
