Take Thirty-One

Transitions...

...take 31!

Some transitions are embraced enthusiastically...
     but honestly, sometimes we'd rather just eat sand instead of being forced into others.

Why? 

Because transitions mean change. 

And change can be exhausting and hard and painful and messy and uncomfortable and overwhelming. 

Change can bring with it a sense of panic. It can make your heart race with fear. It can make you cling to unhealthy familiars because they are...familiar.

Change can be ugly and gross.

It can make you cling to stuff and people you might not ordinarily cling to.

Despite feeling like "full-time transitioners", we Chaps have worked really hard throughout the difficult seasons to cling to the only ONE who doesn't change in the midst of change. 

When we felt forgotten, He faithfully proved we weren't.

When we were broken, He ushered in healing.

When we were hurt, He loved us through and through.

And now, as we face transition again, God is leading us still.

We've prayed and prayed and we asked you to pray with us.

Without fail, many of you poured out encouragement and voiced numerous prayers for our family and after a year of travel and an emotional trip back to Haiti last month, we are ready to embrace the next...

...to shed the luggage and kick the packing and unpacking of suitcases to the curb for a while.

The constant traveling and house-sharing is drawing to a close, praise the Lord! 

We praise Him for His faithfulness and we are pressing hard into His sufficiency as we leap again, with 'new skins'.

Tomorrow marks the beginning of a new chapter for this 6-on-a-journey!

John starts a new job tomorrow in Davenport, FL, just outside Orlando.

I will finish packing our things, at my parents home near the coast of Mississippi, over the next couple of weeks and while we feel ALL the feels, we covet your prayers just as much now as we ever have!

Here's to
   following the ONE who's CONSTANT
       in ALL the change
           as we:

And sometimes...

against all odds,

against all logic,

we still hope

because

"...those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength." 

Isaiah 40:31