and now across the Atlantic.

Tonight, very late, as in 1:30am Sao Paulo time nate will get on a plane to fly directly to Johannesburg, South Africa.  This flight is amazingly direct so he is rather blessed with that and that also means that i only have one flight number i need to remember in order to track his travel.  (225 if you wanted to know)  We are both stepping into a bit of an unknown on this one for us as we are not sure at all what our communication is going to look like during his time there.  However we both have a growing peace about this time and so that has really been a wonderful thing that God has given us.  We prayed for each other tonight and that was great as always and the thing that keeps on coming back to us to pray for is just that God’s grace would pour out over us.  The lyrics of John Mark Mcmillan’s song, How He Loves Us where it says,

“We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.”

Coming to understand this truth more is what really helps bring in rest and peace for both of our hearts.  So yeah, as we go forth into these next 47 days of South Africa we get to learn so much more about that.

[also, as a note, it is just 127 days until we are with each other again in rome!  and that is just an amazing kind of fact.  : ) ]

Moments to Last a Lifetime.

I love the little moments in life, you really have to treasure each and everyone.

Today is the first of the month, and me and Jaylene have had a tradition to get the new Sleeping at Last Ep released every month and then share it with each other. And today we decided to skype and listen it to it together for the first time, and it was a beautiful moment with swelling  music in our ears with lyrics talking about love, and we could not help but have a huge smile on our faces and just gaze into each others eyes, and fall more in love with each other.

This was just such a  good moment as Jaylene is in vancouver and i leave for South Africa on Tuesday for 6 weeks.

: )

I love you Jaylene.