Overcoming

Decisions are a natural part of life. Very few people are exempt from making decisions. Those who do make decisions are held accountable for them. Recently, my husband and I have made the decision to follow God’s calling on our life to be missionaries. We wrestled through it for months previously. Should we or shouldn’t we? Through much prayer, we felt as if the Lord was holding that door open. Last week we took a breath and stepped through. We felt confirmation and many warm welcomes as we were accepted into the mechanic/flight training apprenticeship program. The challenges of if we should have disappeared, but are now replaced with a harder set of challenges. Family.

Our family is supportive of us serving the Lord, but we sense that leaving them for a number of long unknown years is very hard for them. It is for us too. I absolutely love being with both sets of parents and my brothers and sisters. I’m not sure how I’ll adjust to living without seeing them often. God will give me the grace, comfort and peace to get by. I can make that sacrifice for myself. I can deal with it. Yet it’s so much harder to make others sacrifice on our account. One example is our daughter. No doubt our parents would miss my husband and I, but a grandchild, is different. They will miss her growing up and changing. She will miss some bonding with them. Many precious moments will be lost.

“[If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.]”