Homeward Bound

This week I will begin packing up our things to come home. It is amazing to me still that we are leaving Poland for 10 months. It is still amazing that we are leaving at all! We have been thinking we were going to get to leave for about 6 months now and it hadn't happened. Now it really is happening. The plane tickets are being purchased, the suitcases are being packed, and I am beginning to have those moments of sadness. Yes, sadness.

Hard to believe that I would be getting sad, huh??? We met with our dear friends Lukasz and Asia last night for a goodbye evening. Even though we haven't seen them very often over the last year, they were our ministry partners for several years. We were with them every week. We are still close friends and I will miss them. On Tuesday, our Bible study group will be meeting at our house for the last time. Our friends, the Otrembas, are returning from the states on Wednesday and we will have to say goodbye to them, again.

See what I am getting at? All the friends, familiar places, churches...it isn't easy to turn the next page to a new chapter. Although I am so looking forward to being at home and seeing family and friends it is still going to be hard to say goodbye. As my Aunt Jackie who is a missionary in Chile once told us "The life of a missionary is one of "hellos" and "goodbyes". It is so true.

As we say our goodbyes and pack our suitcases, I can look back at our time in Poznan and say that if God changed no ones life because of me these past years, He has definitely changed mine. I came here three and a half years ago, learned a completely horribly difficult language, made great friends and ministry partners, and grew my family by 3! Not a bad first term, huh???