My sister and her husband recently moved to Rochester, New York with their four children after having lived ten minutes down the road from me for as long as I can remember. While we are happy for them and excited to see the plans God has in store, it was so hard to watch them go. For months I could not think about it without welling up in tears.
"It's not far," we have told ourselves. "You can make the trip in a half a day's drive."
"It could always be worse. You could be going to Yemen."
We have comforted ourselves with these sentiments and the hopes that someday they will return to the burgh. In the meantime we are seeing the bright spot.
When we see each other it's 100% time together. Here are the cousins in their jammies having breakfast together! They were recently home for a weekend and while mayhem reigned it was a total blast! James was positively giddy!
He adores his cousins! And so does Ethan.
I love this picture! He always snuggles right up on Chloe's shoulder. She is like a big sister!
Daddy took the boys for a jeep ride, which they thought was totally rad!
They whipped around the neighborhood a few times... all three with poker faces. You would have never known they were having fun, but they were gleeful when they arrived back telling us all about what a great adventure it was.
We will be making a trip to New York in a few weeks and we can't wait to hang out in their new digs and spend some quality time together.
While I would still love to have them ten minutes down the road, in many ways I think this will bring us closer. We talk almost every day on the phone and when we see each other we really get to spend time together instead of an hour here or there.
God's ways are not our ways and sometimes it is so hard to make sense of what He is doing, but I rest in the knowledge that His plans are always good and I praise Him for the gift he has given us in "the bright spot".
"For I know the plans I have for you, " says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
~Jeremiah 29:11
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