The Seasons are Changing

I love it when the seasons change, but I think I especially love the beginning of fall. It's something about the crisp, cool mornings and evenings, the scent of apples and pumpkin spice, the changing colors of the leaves, pumpkins, shorter days, and hot tea and apple cider that I love.

Just as the seasons are changing outside, I feel like we are moving into a completely new (and unexpected) season in our lives (hence the need for a new blog). We didn't expect to be coming home from Bulgaria so soon; in fact, we both thought we would be there for a good bit of our lives. It's interesting to see how God leads, though. It could definitely be a temptation some days to think that we wasted the last two and a half years preparing for Bulgaria and living there for 10 months, but God has continued to give us peace and assurance that we made the right decision to come home and that Bulgaria was not a waste, but that it fits into His plan for our lives, even if we don't quite understand how at this point.

We are also moving into the new season of becoming parents. It is crazy to think that in just 2 and a half months we will have a little baby boy in our family (more updates on this to come). We can't wait to meet him. Though we know being parents will be challenging, we know it will also bring much joy to our lives.

Although we may be moving into a new "season" of life, we really see it as a continuation of the journey God put us on several years ago when we joined Wycliffe and then moved overseas, which is the idea I wanted to capture with the new blog title. We both see our experiences over the past 3 years as part of our journey and as being an important part of our lives, not as some disconnected mistake that we made, and we look forward to seeing God's plans continue to unfold in our lives.