This photo was taken the night before I departed from Texas — one of the more difficult moments in my departure. It was both difficult and blessed. Knowing that I would see my ‘second family’ again made it that much easier, but when little Faith Evangeline began to cry and say such things as, “you’re my friend.... I don’t want you to go... ”, It really made saying “goodbye” that much more difficult, and made me put an extra measure of emphasis on “I’ll be back, Faith” :)



It is these little moments of arrival and departure that fill our lives with hope, as our ever loving and gracious Father directs the providential times in between. Both arrivals and departures etch in our memories the love that we are blessed to have in the lives that joyfully greet us when we arrive, and cry tears of departing love when we go away. Praise the Lord for both, such moments should make us a grateful people.