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Tomorrow’s “the” day.   We fly back to the good ole US of A, back to the only life we once knew, back to family and friends, back to opposite ends of a really big country. Final banquets, love notes from teammates, last dinners, meetings, hugs… I need to go pack my pack and load up my sweet 70s green suitcase I inherited for extra stuff…

It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to live in denial that it’s over and it’s just beginning. Recently all of my thoughts come in pairs… “Next week I get to play tennis with Troy!  … crap, next week I won’t be going to get coffee with Colleen” “Wow… Sunday I get to go to Aldersgate (my church)!… man, next week I’ll be away from my world race church” 

It’s a confusing little world to be in.  In one breathe it’s exciting and sad. Mourning and celebration.   Basically, it’s life at it’s finest.

Yesterday I was talking and this quote from Adam’s Return by Richard Rohr has been playing on repeat in my head

“Ultimate security allows you to suffer small insecurities without tremendous effort.  If you are tethered at a center point, it is amazing how far out you can fly and not get lost.”

            It’s a little scary going home.  It’s filled with tremendous uncertainty and insecurities about how to do this away from the ever changing location of here.   There are a very many small insecurities.   But I walk out of this confident that I have become tethered. Even this year I feel myself fly out away from God and waver but he always pulls me back.  I can tell you confidently that I will fly out even further in the future… but I will never get lost.   That’s God’s grace in all it’s beauty.

 

 To all of my supporters: Thank you for sending me out into the world to find God in a way I didn’t know was possible.   Thank you for supporting me in my endeavor to fall flat on my face as many times as possible in my attempts to find God.   Thank you for your prayers, comments, finances, emails, and on and on the list goes. I’m not sure I will have concrete evidence for each of you of the fruit of this year (I hope you will see just a little of it in my life and in the stories we’ll share)… but I promise you that you have stored up for yourselves some treasure in heaven if I have anything to say about it (which I don’t, God’s kind of in control of that bank!).   I can’t wait to see you and continue to walk out life with you.

 
All that being said… see you SOON!