unfinished business

I know there is a difference between loving and "taking someone on"....
A difference between being a loving care taker and care taking...

Andrew felt our being called back to Maui included dealing with unfinished business.  Well, I find myself in the "land of unfinished business" right now with my family.  We could not of dreamed up what all is happening. And so we see it is really God's hand.

And boy, the unfinished business just keeps coming up!

We have asked my mom to stay with us for at least 6 months.  She had really been struggling post retirement.  We feel life with us in Maui will offer her healing that living at home alone was not giving her.  .She is doing so much better after only being here about a month.  But there is still a road ahead with her and we need much prayer as we navigate. 

 

Also, prayer for my dad.  As we navigate the road with him as well and love him.

I joke that I came to an island to find my family. 

It is all a little surreal in some moments.

 

There is some major soul searching, healing, and seeking going on around here.

Healing.

 

Life is about spending ourselves, right?  I just don't always want as much "spending".  I really feel that God can show up in my life and make the impossible, possible.  If I allow, if I seek, and wait on Him.  I know I live as though I can always pull it off...I have felt in some of these days, I can't pull it off.  I need the God of the impossible.  It is scary when I begin to think I can live life on my own strength, because there is too much here to not constantly seek guidance and look to God
 for each step.

Andrew and I walk in areas without the road map clearly marked.  We desire to love well those around us well and not neglect our little ones.  We want our little's to still feel our family of four and
yet also extend ourselves on behalf of others.

It seems we are not able to only adjust to the transition of moving and at
times that is placed on the back burner as there are so many other
pressing needs and things grabbing our attention.
I feel pulled, yes.  But just as strong, I feel
"for such a time as this" we are all here for a reason.

Down the road we go.....