perspicacity

Not really anything new to report at the moment in our adoption process. We're still working on figuring out our next step. We are still planning to go international, and are making up a couple of lists to clarify things for ourselves. 

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This is an excellent blog post about going through the journey of something hard. It's a long post, but really well written. How often do we just race to get to the end of something? If it's hard and painful, ignore it and focus on the good that will come later. But what if you don't know that any good will come? And what exactly is 'good'? And what if that journey is really long?

My pastor recently preached about Joseph and made an interesting mental exercise midway through the story: stop and put yourself in this spot. Pretend you don't know the end of the story. That is where we are right now. We've just been thrown in jail for doing absolutely nothing wrong, and we don't know the end of the story*. We're in that hard part of this journey, and it's painful and there really aren't words of comfort right now**. Those words will be empty and discounting our journey. It also implies there's only one way to get there (and that 'there' is where one should be).

Life is an adventure! Adventure, by its very nature, is new territory. Let's expect to get lost along the way! That means getting a little worried sometimes, a little scared. It means seeing a part of the countryside you didn't expect to see. It means having the wonderful pop up unexpectedly. It means not missing out on the fabulous because we have tunnel vision. We need to live life more like a road trip, rather than a vacation destination.




*We know the ultimate end: getting to heaven and spending eternity with Jesus. It's just the current story that doesn't seem to have any clues to our (earthly) future.

**Unless they are simple like 'I'm sorry'. Technically, we are beyond that particular phase right now, but still don't like to hear pandering remarks.