Left Behind
I am surprised.
After a full day working in the sweltering heat of my westward facing apartment (temperature registered inside at 93 degrees), I look around at my emptied bookcases and I am surprised. What was accomplished the first day was far more than I imagined.
My youngest son came to help last night and he was surprised too! Moving all their mother's "stuff" was one of my children's big fears. They often said if anything happened to me while I was overseas they would just pay rent for my "stuff" in perpetuity! Joking of course, but it was something they didn't want to deal with. And today, I see, it's not all that bad.
Except for the dust.
At the top of one of my bookcases was a box. As my son carefully handed it down to me he said, "I don't know what this is but it sure is dusty." This relocation is giving me an opportunity to dust things off, change things up and prepare for the next journey to the ends of the earth.
Today, I am making my plane reservations and filling out my visa application to return to Russia on August 29. What a wonderful celebration for my birthday, to be with my friends and the young men at Hope House I saw in May. My teammate and I will spend a few days in Voronezh, and then travel north to Kirov to revisit the orphanages we have not been to in many years. It will be a great time of reconnecting with our co-laborers in Christ and ministering to those in need.
But before I head of to the distant shores, I will travel to South Carolina for the second MARSOC (Marines Special Operations Command) event sponsored by Joni and Friends (August 17-23). What a whirlwind.
Dust might be left behind when nothing around it moves, but I want to be sure no souls are!
"God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life." Psalm 51:9
Smiling up a sweat,
Charlynn
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