Support Letter

For those of you who want to know a few more details about what we are doing, here is our letter that we are giving out to friends and family to keep everyone in the loop and invite people to join us on our journey. 

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Joy

Joy in the journey…

I keep forgetting that this is something God has impressed upon my heart. I get so busy and swept up in running here and there that it is so easy to become focused on everything but what God is teaching me. Perhaps we should re-name this blog so I don’t forget… (on second thought, I think I will just leave the name as is. It’s hard to get two people with strong opinions to agree on something. There are many crumpled papers with dozens of blog name ideas in the recesses of some recycling facility. Perhaps the title of this blog really should be “Compromising in Marriage”! ;-)

(This pic is from our summer road trip and doesn't
have a lot to do with this post except that I think that
blog posts are rather boring without pictures and this
one represents our outward joy on a physical journey.)

But back to joy… it is a lesson I know God is teaching me and I daily need a reminder to seek to find the joy in each day even when it look and feels like a confusing mess. This stage Andrew and I find ourselves in is uncertain and seems rather crazy. We don’t know what our next steps will be after we come back from Uganda in March. We don’t know where we will live, where Andrew will work, when we will have kids, and whether we will be heading to Seminary or doing something else entirely.  We are willing to walk in whatever path God desires but don’t know what direction he wants us to go. It is easy to get caught up in the confusion and feel overwhelmed. I’ve been struggling with feeling anxious and stressed often. Which is a reminder of my lack of faith. Who am I to worry about what we are going to do with our lives when God totally has this? I am being convicted more and more that it doesn't even matter where we end up or what our next chapter of life will look like. The most important thing is that we are pursuing our relationship with God and growing in our knowledge and love of Him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3

Today I am going to be praying that God helps my knowledge of truth to be owned by the feelings of my heart.

And tomorrow I promise I will post an update on where we are at with Uganda! We’re getting pretty excited!

-Naomi