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words by jenny<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We finally have an answer! \u00a0One way tickets have been purchased and on June 17th we will climb on\u00a0board a plane headed south and move to Quito. \u00a0Feels unreal.<\/p>\n

The afternoon we told our kids that our tickets had been purchased was a rough one. \u00a0We took them to Starbucks to celebrate with cake pops and then walked home. \u00a0Backpacks and shoes came flying off as we unlocked the front door. \u00a0Along with the usual lunch boxes and homework dropped on the floor, the emotions came tumbling out in full force. \u00a0For so, so, so long the date that we would move to Ecuador had been so abstract. \u00a0It was always somewhere off in the future, unknown and fluid and not yet concrete. \u00a0And then suddenly it was not so abstract anymore. \u00a0June 17th. \u00a0Solid. \u00a0Firm. \u00a0Known. \u00a0Life changing.<\/p>\n

I think our kids felt some relief for having an answer to the question of when we were going to move (as did we), but the new knowledge was also met with mixed feelings and emotions that demanded escape and were lived out in tantrums and overreactions and tears and bad attitudes. \u00a0As we settled into our after school routine, I launched into a little\u00a0monologue about how we are all facing a big transition and we all have many conflicting emotions about all that is going to happen and we all just need to do our best to extend each other a little more grace in this season.<\/p>\n

And with eyes rolling (yes, we have entered that era of parenting – awesome), our dear boy proclaimed in a very exasperated voice,\u00a0\u201cAh! \u00a0Mom! \u00a0You have been saying that for months and months and months!\u201d.<\/p>\n

And he was right. \u00a0I have been saying it for months, as much for myself as for my small people with very big\u00a0feelings. \u00a0This season of transition has been long and we have all had our ugly moments in the midst of the unknown and the not yet.<\/p>\n

I have been replaying the moments of that afternoon over and over in my mind the past few days. \u00a0And while this stretch of the journey for our\u00a0family has been somewhat unique and intense, the reality is that life is always in transition. \u00a0Relationships are built or relationships end – transition. \u00a0Jobs are lost and new opportunities emerge – transition. \u00a0Babies are born or parenting dreams go unrealized – transition. \u00a0World views are shattered or assumptions are challenged – transition. \u00a0Loved ones die or a bad\u00a0diagnoses comes along – transition. \u00a0Systems of support are broken down or life giving\u00a0community is forged – transition.<\/p>\n

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My prayer is that in the midst of this transition and every large and small one that comes after it, that we would continue to learn about, struggle with and pursue grace. \u00a0In the tears and the excitement – grace. \u00a0In the goodbyes and the\u00a0\u201cNice to meet you\u2019s\u201d – grace. \u00a0In the doubt and in the certainty – grace. \u00a0In the now and in the not yet – grace.<\/p>\n

For myself and for others – grace.<\/p>\n

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