Home is where the heart is

Once again its been a few weeks since I have blogged. Since we have returned from London and France it has taken a few weeks for me to get my house in order (meaning get my kids back under control), and finally get my suitcase unpacked. On top of all that, the workers are finally coming to finish the drywall, paint, and carpet on our unfinished upstairs. To work on our unfinished upstairs (which was our storage) we have had to move all sorts of stuff into our 1300 sq foot downstairs. In the midst of all this it is a season change, meaning lots of boxes out and left open for four kids as it turns cold then hot then cold then hot again. Oh and can we forget 4 kids ages 6 and under running in around in a cluttered house. So its safe to say there has been alot of choas around here.

I say all this to say my heart is firm and my eyes set fast... for France. As October comes and goes, and our time frame for leaving comes and goes, we realize we will probably not leave for France before the new year... which is fine, because we know who put the stars in the sky and hung the earth in space and parted the waters which created France.

We know that Christ loves the French even more than we do. Our hearts are a little sad knowing there are unchurched nonbelievers there waiting for us to come. We had a Christmas party envisioned in our head as a great ground breaker to meet our neighbors, and for others to bring friends... but we know who took dirt from the earth to create a man and then took a rib from that man to create a women.

We know the man who made the blind to see, healed the sick, and raised the dead. We know the God who loved man so much that he spared nothing to reach him. So, what is it that can keep us from going to France... nothing (except for maybe ourselves if we choose not to grow for God to use us). So pray that God would open the floodgates of His miraculous power to get not only us, but all of our teammates to France at the same time as soon as His perfect will allows. We know He wants to show us His power, it is just gets hard to wait when your heart is already there.