A while back I blogged about our multiple homes, both our traveling home and our ministry homes in Georgia and Arkansas. This evening we went to Shiloh Christian Church, our home church, in Fort Collins, CO a few miles from our Colorado house which we slept in front of in our traveling home on Wednesday after completing the 900 mile trip from Arkansas. The rainbow picture we posted yesterday was taken facing east from our house the evening we arrived. What a welcome back God provided for us.
Karen's sister, Jinny has been living in our house since we left Colorado on our first missionary journey and now it appears that her daughter and granddaughter, our niece and great-niece will be joining her in the house. Jinny has made some changes in the house and the past few days we have all been working to get our stuff packed and stored so that Cherie and Courtney can move their stuff and themselves in. It's a good thing for everyone, since there isn't enough room for all of us to live there, and we have done very well on the road with less, and if we haven't needed any of the furniture, clothing and accumulated things from a 69 and 72 year lifetime, we can reasonably assume we won't need it up or down the road. So the closets are getting cleared out, the bookshelves are being emptied and the furniture we started accumulating 41 years ago is destined for family members, church family, or thrift store donations. In a few weeks the downsizing process will be complete and our house will have become someone else's home.
God has a plan for us, a place for us and a destiny for us, and we are content with what He has done with our lives and to our lives and we will continue to be guided and directed as He sees fit. It's good to be back in Fort Collins, and it's fine with us that He is telling us that our home is elsewhere and that what was our home for 17 years will be a home to others. Thank You, Lord as you set the course for our second missionary journey toward new homes and Home. We trust You.
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So glad you're both back! It was good getting to talk to you at church last night. We've missed you!
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