My favorite cup

Full of coffee...
Next to the butter...
he likes to get his photo taken.

Room(s) with a View

The view from my bedroom window...




and the view from our kitchen window...

6 months

I left the states 6 months ago yesterday. Hard to believe. Friends took me out for a drink to celebrate and I said: can you drive me to the airport so I can go home (to the states) when we're done?

It's been a full 6 months...full of joy and peace and frustration and displacement and feasting and laughing and loving and praying and hoping and fear and struggling and wondering and learning and giving and tears.

And none of it is what I thought it would be. I'm not exactly okay with that, but I'm trying to be. I'm praying that I will be. As I read in my Bible this morning and then a little of Amy Carmichael, I heard plainly that the will of God for me is that I pray and then continue in prayer.

It isn't what I expected. Maybe it never is, but I know that His way is the one of Love, for He is Love. I hope, in the end, that the unexpected ends in love.

Abram

One last post...of little Abram at camp. I love hearing him say: ce asta?

Jump

Sunk into the deck at camp is a big trampoline...Super Tramp, as it is called. Here are some pictures of the kids jumping...see if you can tell which one is me. :)

Here are some shots of the week at camp...

Camp: Getting There

We spent last week in Lepsa at summer camp. Here are some photos of the bus ride there...I love the one of the kid reading Wendell Berry. We're starting them early.