So Long Ordinary

About a week and a half ago, we should have been on a jet plane, headed back to our home, life, and ministry in Indonesia.  Um.  We didn't go. No visas. Visa purgatory. At the same time, this delay has been just what we needed.  It has given us a few days to rest, to recover from all the craziness of our furlough travels.  It has provided us with extra time to deal with a medical issue (more on that later).  It has freed up a weekend for camping with my family and for being able to see my niece off to college. It provided us a chance to see our friends and mentors whose influence brought us to MAF as they prepare to head back out on a new assignment themselves.  It has given us a little more time so we could go visit Sean's cousin, finally visit the Denver museum of Natural History, and see Sean's sister and our brother-in-law again.  It gave us a weekend to drive out to eastern Kansas to see my Grandma Jean (a precious weekend with her, by the way) an...

I don't think I've ever had this long of a hiatus from blogging.  This furlough has been all about doing and living and stealing moments of rest.  As a result, you've probably noticed that Sean and I have both been very quiet on our blogs.  We're coming up for air, finally, and we'll hopefully get you all caught up on the past few months as we reflect on it all ourselves.  Sean is catching up with TONS of really great pictures from our furlough time, so be sure to check into his blog regularly.   This has been one heck of a furlough.  There has been lots of travel, training, memorable trips, unforgettable experiences, blessed times with supporters and supporting churches, and so much more.  We probably didn't get as much rest as we may have liked but that's hard to do when you have so many people you want to see and so much you want to do with them.  So, we've been living it up!  We've been " Carpe-ing the Diem " as Sean and I like to say...