Joy in the Journey

I've been meaning to start this for quite a while...a really long while, actually.  Ever since our big family up and left our hometown over three years ago, we have been on the adventure of our lives.  We did the craziest thing.  You know it would make a good reality show.  "Family of nine leaves behind all security to follow an invisible God into an unknown land...Yeah, they've lost it."
At the time it felt like a pretty secure thing to do.   At first.  That's how it is when you walk in faith.  Gotta hurry up and DO it before you chicken out.  There's so much grace at first. That's the easy part. The really hard part comes once it's too late to turn back.  That's the test.  There were times that we did alright--ya know, God-must-be-pretty-proud-of-us times.  But there were plenty more times of "What in the heck is He doing???" than we'd like to remember.  We have all learned so much!  I'd also like to share the journey with you.  The ups and downs, struggles and victories.  If I can encourage you to keep on keeping on by showing you some glimpses into where we ended up thus far and how we got here it would make me happy.
Joy,
jen