It’s been just over a week since I arrived in Malawi and I’m very glad to be zipping up my cases for a while.
Tonight I finished putting clothes in the wardrobe. As if rattling round a three bedroom house wasn’t reminder enough, a half-filled wardrobe made it clear. It won’t be home until Jacqueline and the girls are here.
It’s been a busy week since arriving last Tuesday. Visiting houses, negotiating with landlords, test driving cars and shopping for ‘essentials’.
However, I don’t think it’s been a patch on Jacqueline’s week. Still working, Morven teething and coughing (not sleeping) and Eilidh just busy being 5 years old. All that and preparing to move our family across continents.
I’m very grateful for the welcome I’ve received here and as work begins there will be more news to share. But for now, I wanted to say I am even more thankful to Jacqueline.
I’m thankful for her courage in the Lord to even do this together. I’m grateful that, amongst everything going on, she finds time to encourage me and when things are moving slowly to remind me of the calling we felt together. I admire her strength to bear all of this with hardly a sigh, let alone a complaint.
Sure, I can share pictures of houses and sunshine. But I can’t show you a home until we’re here together.
“As for me and my house, we shall serve the lord.”
Joshua 24:15