Tomorrow we leave for Georgia!!! My grandparents will be taking us down there in their tour bus sized RV, and we will be hitting the trail on Monday. This past week has flown by! We've moved out of our first apartment, packed all our belongings for six months of storage, payed final bills, shuffled around savings, and generally enjoyed each other's company. Lately (since the new year), I've come to view my wife as more of my partner. She's always been my best-friend, but our relationship is growing into a stage of partnership. Yes, I will always be her husband and she my wife, but it has become something so much greater :)
We are so appreciative of all the well wishes we have received. Monday night we had a goodbye party for my brother-in-law who is now a Marine and going onto another training school. Thursday night we got to have dinner with Ryan and Mindy Redfeairen--truly an extraordinary couple full of love and zeal for the Lord. Then tonight, we had dinner with my whole family. Tomorrow we'll have a nice farewell breakfast with the family and be on the road by 7 A.M. Our packs are packed and everything is set to go. My pack weighs in at 29lbs fully stocked with 4 days of food and my water bottle filled. I'd like it to be closer to 26lbs, but I think I'll manage. Dawn's pack tips the scales around 27lbs fully packed and with 34 ounces of waters as well.
God has been so good in providing for all aspects of this trip. At this point it's time to put our hands to the plow and not look back. I find myself lately focusing on the simplicity of Jesus ministry, and I can't help but gravitate to that in a world that makes life so complicated, life as a Christian, when cut down to its simplest form, is all about loving one another with the love God shows us and being doers of the will of God. You might say, "Jeremy, there's no way I can know the will of God!" But we absolutely can. Don't over complicate it. Jesus said it best in Matthew 22:39, to "Love God and to love your neighbor." If you have no other starting point at discerning the will of God for your life start with loving Him, and being a conduit to others of the same love he showed us.
If anybody has any questions about our trip that we can answer please feel free to leave them in the comment section and we'll do our best to answer them. Or send me or Dawn an email to: jerqin@gmail.com or dkuehn0517@gmail.com
No comments:
Post a Comment