I’ve been waiting for the reality of this move to Japan to hit the kids. I think we saw the first signs of it mid-week when my youngest daughter Cora Jo went back to bed at 9 am and slept another few hours, saying her tummy hurt. After dinner that night, she and Memphis both said, “I’m nervous about Japan.”
Me too. Nervous, excited, fatigued, overwhelmed, and ready. The passage that has been on my heart for this move is Psalm 139. Verses 9 and 10 play over and over in my head:
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there Your hand will guide me,
Your right hand will hold me fast.
We “rise on the wings of the dawn” next week, flying in for a quick stop in Seattle before our international flight to the “far side of the sea” on Thursday. I tell myself the same thing I told my girls: God goes before us, with us, behind us. We rehearse HIS faithfulness instead of our fear. We depend on HIS strength instead of our weakness. His hand will guide—He is enough. And I tack on for myself—Lord, I believe, please help my unbelief! T minus five days and counting.