Love is the Mission

I used to believe that the things I did on earth were simply to get me to Heaven, to His Kingdom.  As a child I feared hell so I desperately wanted God to live in my heart and did what was right because of my childish thoughts. The joy I have now is because I know we are living in His Kingdom now.  We have the ability to talk with God, hear His voice, be His hands and feet.  We not only hear stories from the past but are living them every day of our lives.  How amazing is that? I know our daily lives can seem very ordinary.  We go to work to pay our bills.  We get groceries to feed our family.  We do laundry, clean our homes, wash our cars, mow our lawn.  It all can at times take the wind out of our sails.  But what if our outlook changed?  We go to work to invest in those we work beside, we pray for them, love on them, invest in them.   We get groceries at a store where we care for those that check us out.  We do the daily...

     The last year of our family's lives have been all the things: new, scary, terrifying, fun, unsettling, but also amazing.  Everyone of us has transitioned in some way or another:      The marriage of our daughter and gaining a new son.      Moving to a smaller home in the country.      Adding bees and chickens to our little settlement.      Skin cancer diagnoses.      Surgeries.      Moving our elderly mom with Alzheimers in with us permanently.      Starting an Airbnb.      Having our grown children move in with us for several months while in      transition to Sweden.      Our son and his wife moving to Sweden.      Hearing the call of God on Village to Village and moving forward with      some huge unknowns.      Hosting the largest event in five years th...