Well, I leave in the morning for the Dominican. I am looking forward to it, but as the time has approached my excitement has been tempered and almost overwhelmed by sadness over leaving my family. I am really going to miss Sarah and the kids. I'm not nervous about the trip or my time down there. It is going to be good and I am going to love it, but I hate being away from the family. Tonight I sat down with Esther and Nathan and we had a long talk about where Daddy was going, what Daddy would be doing, and why. We got out the map and showed them where I was going and where my plane would land and all the details. They were excited. Nathan told me that he was going to come with me. I wish he could. I told him maybe he could when he got older.
Sarah is going to spend part of the week down at her parents. Her sister just had a baby and she is eager to see the baby and to help Joni as much as she can.
Pray for our trip. Pray for safety in travel and while we are in country. Pray for the work, that Christ will be magnified and people will be called into relationship with him.
It will all be over before I know it and I will wonder where the time went. But tonight as I went in the kids room to give them a kiss before I went to bed, I was missing them already. Yes, I'm a big softie when it comes to my kids.
These things remind us of just a hint of what it must have been like as Jesus left His Father in heaven to come to earth for us. Amazing love, how can it be!?
