We are moving. We are packing up and heading south. We should arrive in the Villages, Florida sometime in November. Florida is probably the last place we'd ever expected to be and in Golf Cart Land no less. And we don't even golf!!!
Today was a sad day. Today was the day we told the church the news. Lots of crying from the pulpit to the back row. Everyone was stunned. You could have heard a pin drop. I heard a few very audible "oh no's" from the back and it nearly broke my heart. It's been very hard to keep this from them these last few weeks. But it was the only way and the right thing to do. We wanted everyone to hear this at the same time with no favoritism being shown. It was like we dropped a bomb to see those stunned faces.
We must be crazy we've been saying to ourselves for weeks. Who in their right mind would leave what we have behind? It's one thing to leave when you're running away from something, it's quite another to leave when all is well and successful. I will now tell my team tomorrow that I won't be back next year.
We don't know what God has in store for us, but we are feeling a very strong pull and the doors have been opened wide at every step. We've been in this place before.
We're about to go to a place where we know virtually no one save one other couple who went before us. I guess it's true what they say, "if you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat." I can't swim so I'd better be able to walk.
We must be crazy! Yes, we are crazy about God. Now it's just a matter of finding out what's on his mind for our lives. It's going to be interesting. I hate to move.