Last Minutes

By Natasha

This week just flew by.. what a blur? It started out hectic with being delayed by 2 days because of the snow, having to rush around the city to apply and get 2 visas(the last we can get before the trip), pick up, prep and start packing our Landy, and move out completely and clean our flat before the new tenants moved in today.

It seems God is really preparing us to be flexible for this journey. Plans changed and we have to adjust quickly and roll with the punches making the most of it all. He’s just reminding us that He is in charge and that our schedule, time and expectations are now His. Afterall, that was our prayer.

Not only did we have no idea how much we still had to do to get ready for this trip, we also couldn’t even try to fathom how far the 2 days of snow would set us back. And on top of that, being so sick didn’t help either. We kept postponing our Scotland trip till later in the week, but unfortunately we had to go ahead and cancel the trip altogether when I wasn’t getting any better and we were afraid we weren’t going to get out of our flat in time.

I am incredibly sad since we’ve been planning this week for months and we were really looking forward to go visit one of my dear friends, to meet her youngest and to say goodbye (for now) to them all! I had to move past the sadness and realize that getting healthy and ready was more important and that we will stay in touch and visit them again soon. We’re also having to trust that nothing mechanical will go wrong (just yet that is) since we didn’t get to give the Landy a proper run-in just yet.

We are all moved out and all of our earthly possessions are either in boxes in a container somewhere on the Atlantic ocean on its way to the US, in storage, in our Landy... or in Nick and Lana’s second bedroom! And pretty soon all that matter will be with us in the back of the Landy packed tightly and organized in such a way that we can pull out things quick and easy.

Had a great, awesome time of visiting and praying with dear friends last night and praying for some more good quality time before we head out in 2 days! Please pray for our health that we will get well soon and be able to leave in great spirits and energized. And also pray for more time.. that God will just stretch our time to get everything we need to get done done and can leave feeling ready and prepared. We’re treasuring every last minute!