PREPARING FOR TRAVEL

We are still waiting on Eyerusalem's court date, but it should be within the month, so I will most likely travel in mid-January. As I begin to thinka about returning to Ethiopia, my heart skips a beat and my kids get so envious! They are already moaning about the foods I get to eat without them. I have sorted some donations of braille books and the rest of the Braille Bible I will take with me, and already I am almost to the baggage limit for one person! Ooops! Praying God will allow us to have some special waivers to take all that I am dreaming of for our kids. I hope to take each of our 34 blind students an mp3 voice recorder for their lectures, a couple of laptops with screen reader software for their resource room, and of course, I have to take something for all our friends! Anyone want to go with me to help me carry it all? It's been amazing as we talk with the kids about preparing our hearts for our Yeru (her nickname). We know this won't be easy, and she will have more adjustments as far as her schooling, adjusting to being the middle of five children, etc. Isn't it amazing how you see God grow your faith when you are doing what seems to make no sense from an outside perspective (or sometimes even from an inside one) and yet you have immeasurable peace in the process? God is good. He will hold our hands through this, just as He did during our last year. Thank you Lord for being our steady anchor that we can cling to when we know the wind is picking up....