this past weekend cailyn and i got a chance to go back to purdue for a couple of days, and it was amazing. there are so many stories that i could share...but i will try to keep it to a few...
a friend of ours from here in warrensburg is a pilot and own's a plan, and so he flew us to purdue. the last part of our flight was definitely a little bit interesting. we flew the last hour or so in the clouds and as we got close to purdue, we started into our landing pattern and then they put us on hold and so we had to wait and at that point in time, we had a little bit of trouble with a gauge and it got us a little bit off course. a long story short, we were a little bit nervous as we flew around in the clouds. it is just so crazy because you can't see a single thing and you have no reference at all for direction as you fly around in the clouds. but God totally took care of us and the most awesome part of the whole thing was that when we got everything working properly, we started to descend for our landing and at about 1200 feet we came out of the clouds and all of a sudden we could see everything on the ground and right there in front of us was the airport. it was amazing!!
cailyn and i were talking about it afterwards, and she talked about how it was like God just delivered us. and i thought that was an amazing analogy. God is constantly in the business of delivering us from the turmoil of life and that i absolutely what He did for us as we flew around the skies above purdue on saturday.
we also had an amazing opportunity to spend time with our families, which was amazing as always. we are just so blessed to have such an amazing family! it did, however, make both cailyn and i think a decent amount about how we would really love to be a little bit closer to home by the time our children are getting past the toddler stage. but ultimately that comes down to what God desires, and we will just have to trust him with all that and look to him for guidance and direction.
lastly, we got to go to church at campus house yesterday morning, and it was absolutely amazing. it was so refreshing and encouraging. it reminded me that the "church", according to what God designed it to be, it about people and about relationships and about love. that is the way He designed it from the very beginning, and that was absolutely what i was reminded of as i was back at purdue. however, it also came with some pretty significant challenges. it made cailyn and i think about how we would really like to get back to that area again eventually.
the challenge right now for us seems to be tied up in figuring out how we pray for the opportunity to one day return to purdue or to the area and yet to also be serving God and giving our all here at central missouri and warrensburg. i am not really sure what that needs to look like, but as i think about it i really feel like there is a way for both of those things to happen at the same time. i just really want to strive to figure that out one step at a time.
it was an amazing weekend and i was absolutely reminded of what an awesome God we serve!!
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