In October 2013 we said goodbye to our friends as they moved to Oregon for a “temporary” two-year assignment.  We saw them in 2014 when they were home for a visit, and in 2015 we went to see them on our Road Trip.

We did not have any visits in 2016, and that makes this current reunion all the sweeter.

Their trip “home” is not over, and we hope to have more time with them.  I feel like a sponge when we are together, as I try to “soak up” as much of them as I can.  I keenly remember Jenn’s phone call in 2013, and the secret I kept for most of that day as we waited to hear if it was really happening.  And I will likely never forget having to tell the kids the next morning and their subsequent reactions. 

Saying goodbye is still in front of us.  I’m not looking forward to that.  And as we are approaching the four year mark of a two-year assignment, we are learning to count time together differently. 

Acts 1:7 – He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.