GOING HOME...

As I send out these posts I intend the title to have multiple levels of meaning. This month "Going Home" was so painfully obvious to me that it had to be said. Why?

1.  BRIGITTE & I WILL BE GOING HOME
February 1 to 14 we will be in Calgary and Kelowna, catching up with friends and getting people excited about the growing work here in the UK and South Africa. With this level of development there are always more needs. We will be looking for people and organizations to partner with us to make the Message of Jesus Christ clear and relevant here in the UK and South Africa.

We are hosting an evening event in Calgary (Feb. 01) and Kelowna (Feb. 11) for friends and partners. Details above.

2.  MYA WILL BE GOING HOME
January 14th our wonderful 1st child will be moving back to Calgary to regain her Canadian roots. She will be volunteering with an organization called Young Life. We wish her well as she discovers her own ministry, outside of the shadow of her dad.

I must admit that her leaving hurts more than anything I have ever experienced as a father, yet it is so right. She has been entrusted to us for a season and now we pray that she grasps the height, depth, width and breadth of the love of Jesus as she steps out in faith in a new and foreign land (to her). We love her deeply, but not so much that we get in the way of who God is calling her to be.
3.  WE WILL ALL BE GOING HOME
As some of you know, life seems to stand still when your children are young, and then boom, a child leaves home, you look back and time has just flown by.

This is so true of our day to day lives. We plan to help in the Church, a local mission or soup kitchen, tomorrow. We are committed to support that camp or overseas project, next time. But things get in the way, life gets in the way and time flies.

As Mya leaves to enter her own venture of ministry, I am slapped in the face of the reality of my life and how short it is.... It has awaken me to get back on with getting on. I will soon be going home to be with my maker. I have probably 20 good years left to make a difference in the world I live and then I will be with Him. This sense of urgency fills my soul more now than when I first discovered Christ at the age of 16. It is my prayer that those who read this, wake up and get on with what is important. Again I am reminded of a song by Sandi Patti... ‘We Shall Behold Him’. It lets me know the prize is not in the here and now, but when we all have gone home.....

In His Service,
Bill

Comments

  1. Eunice MitchellJanuary 12, 2012 at 7:52 PM

    Dang I love your heart! You say it so well. I may have less years than you on this earth to make a difference. I needed to hear the get going with getting going! God has warmed my heart with the youth of Ukraine and I so look forward to spending more time in service than in work. Someday we will connect again.
    Blessings to you and your family, Bill!

    Eunice

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    One Down - Four to Go and then Wales will be a better place!

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