I guess were down to the wire now. Our bags are packed... more or less. Many of our goodbyes have already been said, but we have plenty of hard ones left as well. I have been getting the "How are you feeling" question a lot lately. It's a good one, but not the easiest to answer. Let me give it a shot one more time. I suppose I am feeling stressed and overwhelmed, scared and sad, excited and expectant. Some times I want to dig my feet in and never leave this place; more often I am ready to just get this show on the road already. Overwhelmingly though, I don't feel much at all. It is hard to process so many things at once and, after all, "each day has enough trouble of it's own." So most days I just look at the schedule and the to-do list, decide what can get packed in that day, and keep moving forward one step at a time. In 10 days we will leave from the Cedar Rapids airport headed for Jakarta. If all goes well we will make it there in 26 hours of travel to a time zone 13 hours ahead. We will have 6 checked bags, with only 1.5 hour layovers in both Dallas and Hong Kong, and a 16 hour flight between the two, 1 high energy 18 month old, and 1 coworker who will be traveling with us starting in Dallas. Once we arrive we will have 2 days in Jakarta for orientation and jet lag. Then we will take another quick flight over to Salatiga where we will have 10 days or so to get things like unpacking, figuring out how to pay bills and where to grocery shop squared away before we start language school. Initially school will be 4 hours of classroom time per day followed by about 4 hours of homework, including plenty of talking to people in the community beginning day one. So we could use some prayer! If you think of us over the next month please pray for our families and the grief of saying goodby, for our travels (specifically that we would make our connections and that Jackson would do well), that Jackson would quickly adjust to all the change, and that our minds will be sharp as we begin learning the Indonesian language. Thanks so much friends! Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? Matthew 6: 26-27
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