…169 hours and 13 mins from this moment, Corrie & I will be sitting at the airport gate, boarding passes in hard and mentally tired as we try to remember if the 15 bags we just checked in have all we need.
“do you think the big orange bag have enough formula & diapers?”
“do you remember if I packed the extra battery for the camera in case the power converter doesn’t work?”
“where’s the copy of your passport and shot record?”
“did we remember to give your parents the blue folder for Will’s homework?”
…169 hours and 13 mins doesn’t seem like that far way, but it is when your mind is full. And a full mind is what leads to the search for that the one thing we may have left out of those 15 bags.
169 hours from this moment I pray that I will have the presence to reach over and take Corrie’s hand to say, we are ready for the life ahead of us that is waiting.
I know we may not do everything right and there are greater challenges ahead that we may think. However, we can have peace because this journey is no longer about the doctors orders that another pregnancy is too high of a risk or the words that we read in the book of James or the overwhelming scale of the orphan crisis. This journey is simply about our family and our little girl who is coming home.
So, those 15 bags may have something missing, and that is okay. It is okay, because our children are all safe and their mom and dad are waiting at a gate waiting to board so that we can all be together.
“We had to pay extra for the orange bag because all the formula put us over the weight limit.”
“The two extra batteries are fully charged.”
“I have a digital image of my passport & shot record that I can access from anywhere in the world.”
and “Will’s blue folder was in his backpack that I put into my mom’s hands.”
so, 169 hours and 31 mins from now, I wonder what we will be thinking about next?
