Well plans never cease to change...the week with my mom turned into a little more than two weeks of unpacking boxes and setting up house in her new apartmentin Longbeach California, and now i am back in Iowa to pick up my belongings that i left behind and then head back out.
We arrive in the evening at mom's apartment on Tuesday night and about an hour after we were there a seventeen year old boy got shot in a drive by right next to my mom's house. I learned that night that my mother had never heard gun shots before...and she learned that i had. We had several talks over the next couple of weeks about how to live where she lives, levels of safety, what is just being caucious and what is settingn up barricades to ministry. to what can she do and what does she feel comfortable doing. I saw a new side of my mom that week that i had not seen before. Please pray for my mom's neighbours as they greive the loss of a friend, and please keep my mom in your prayers as she learns where and how to be the hands and feet of Jesus in her new surroundings.
More plans have changed since i have come back too Orange City, Iowa. I was planning on just a few days and then hopping my 1969 VW Bug with my belongings piled inside and heading back out. But the Bug that was in the shop while i was gone ended up not being fixed by the time i got back (more than 6weeks later) because the mechanic thinks that the bug will not make the trip without some other work done with the engine. So i finally came to the hard decision of selling the bug and heading out without the beloved Bluebug. So almost a week later i am still here in Iowa getting the details squared away.
There are no regrets though; the time back here in Iowa has been wonderful and i relize just how much i will miss it here. And the future days ahead are breight...I am looking forward to meeting up with the Servants team in Vancouver, BC on October 1st, and a good friends wedding on September 26 (woohoo Kevin!)
Looking forward to new adventures and new plans changing, catch ya later!
