Trusting

As most of you probably know by now, we made the final decision last week to return back to the U.S. this summer instead of staying in Spain for a third year. The seeming bottom line is that we just did not have the financial support to stay another year. I say "seeming," because although that is the circumstance that propelled us to make the move, the true bottom line is that we and many of you had been praying that God would make it clear to us what we should do and it was pretty clear once we started really looking at our options. The Lord is leading us home. That is the true bottom line.

We are sad to leave here. I keep thinking back to the weeks and months in 2008 before we left to come here, how 2 years seemed like such a long time to leave everyone and everything. And yet, now on the other side of those 2 years, I cannot believe how fast it has gone by. My kids were 2 and 4 and now they are 4 and 6. It really seems like just yesterday.

We have loved our work here. It has not always been an easy job or an easy life, as anyone who has moved their family overseas can attest, but the Lord continues to amaze me with the blessings I could never have expected or imagined. He has stripped and refined all of us and has proven time and time again that He can be trusted. I really have nothing to fear.

We are returning home with no job, no house, no idea really what the next year(s) will look like for us, but I know it will all work out. Because He can be trusted.