Easter 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter 2013

40 Days is over ~ Easter is HERE! He is Risen!

Nothing about our 40 day push turned out as we thought it would, but everything is right!

We planned on blogging often during the 40 days.
We planned on being busy.
We planned on traveling and speaking in a lot of churches and small groups.

We did not plan on stomach bugs, food poisoning, a kidney stone, our planned language school closing, or my Dad passing on to glory on March 3rd.

We did not plan on taking a few weeks to stop, wait, and listen, to receive guests and sympathy, and to pour over paperwork. And then we resumed at full-speed even though we were exhausted from receiving guests and from grief.

We did not plan for those things, but God did.
He knew everything.

And it's the little things that get me.
The moment when my dad died was the only time my brother, sister, mom and I were in the room alone with Daddy.
I held his hand.
His last food was a pepermint patty. Remember taste the sensation? And we could laugh. We needed that.
And then there was the friend who just happened to be close by that weekend, who could come for the funeral; the cousin who was able to come from far away; the scarf from a Texas friend to keep giving me hugs.

Even through the ups and downs during the 40 days, and without being able to work as hard as we planned, God provided new partners and supplied our needs.
We have now made it to 94% of our monthly support. We're so close!
We have a new language school destination in Albertville, France. We are applying for visas and plan to depart as soon as possible.
The coming weeks are full of appointments and sharing about our EthnoArts work in Cameroon. It's coming together after all.

Thank you for praying and keeping us busy. Keep praying!

Enjoy these photos from "Talents Unmasked," an event held last week at our church as a fundraiser for the Grant family and us.