Hope – Wonderful Joy – Faith to Trust – Complete Surrender to Obedience  It is June 8th, 2018 – This day looks VERY different from the June 8th, 2018 that we had envisioned on June 8th, 2017.   So much has changed, and yet at the same time, there is a lot that has remained the same.  The destination is the same; but the road to get there took a huge detour.  How many times are we on a road and there’s a delay; a detour, an unplanned stop – whether to see something wonderful or because of an issue beyond our control?  Do we still arrive at our destination, eventually?  And sometimes that destination changes and is it not always better than we had originally planned? I should put a disclaimer here because I’ve been out on the KLR and my brain is a bit dual sport rider focused.  Sorry folks. Many of you know that 1Peter1;6 is very close to my heart.  ‘Be truly glad, there is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while.’  I haven’t always been glad, I definitely didn’t think there would ever be wonderful joy ahead.  I hatedthe trials I was being made to endure.  But the destination; full time missions in Argentina, never changed; being a […]

I write this as I wait at the Kelowna Airport to fly to Vancouver and then onto Minneapolis for Gather ’18.  This is a trip of saying goodbye to friends and family – it’s only two years, but seems huge since I’ll be on a different continent, in a different hemisphere, what seems to some as a different world.  This is a trip of getting to boast about Argentina, along with introducing my friend, Ivan Carrasco, from Argentina.  It will be a trip of memories – just a year ago; being commissioned together as New Missionaries. As I embark on this exciting next stage of this journey of life, I’d like to ask something of my friends and family.  July 19th would have been our wedding anniversary.  Max and I would have been married for 21 years and together for 28 years.  I’d like this to be a day of celebration.  Would you celebrate with me?  Would you be willing to do that one thing that as a couple, or as a single, you always say your going to do or would like to do …. but never do.  It might be something as simple as being a tourist in your own town and seeing the museum, going to a play, something big like going ziplining or for a hike […]