Seven Hundred Ten is a nice, even number, don’t you think?
That’s 1 year, 11 months and 10 days, exaclty.
Or 17,040 hours, approximately.
Wow, that hours number doesn’t freak me out as much as the almost 2 years number.
My gifting is in colors, not numbers, and in the case of moments away from home (which is 1,022,400!), that’s a good thing.
710.
Nice, round, evenly divisible number.
Also a great stopping point, don’t you think?
Many of you have followed my “count up” since Day 1.
(On this blog, that would be since Day 19, the first public post of the count up)
In doing so, you have also shed some tears and smiles with me along the way.
Many of you have also offered prayers and lifted our family up to The Lord, and I’m confident that the immense strength we as a family have had during this journey has been a blessing from God, and I am thankful for the faithful prayers of friends and strangers alike.
My son will be returning soon.
That’s right! We have a count down in progress now!
In just a few short weeks, our family will be reunited, and words cannot express the excitement every one of us has, as we prepare, plan and dream a little bit louder about our reunion.
But the journey is far from over. As much as we prepare, plan and dream, and think about our desires for the coming months, it is Our Saviour who remains in control. We understand that it is His perfect and holy, Masterfully orchestrated script that will unfold before us. It is in knowing this that I ask for your specific prayers.
Please join us in continuing to pray for safety & protection.
For provision.
For us to recognize the direction of the weather vane.
For understanding.
And above all else, pray for us to be yeilded to The Master’s plan, and to move in obedience with His will for our lives.
As much as I have looked forward to having all of my chics under my wings again — oh! My heart leaps at the thought! — I know that like the seaons and other things of this earth, temporary is the moment, and eternal is the life. Please pray for our time together to be an easy transition and a powerful ignition into a new chapter.
Tomorrow is a new day.
A new number.
Praise the Lord, for great things He hath done!
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