Monday, August 22, 2011

Our Family Update

Hmmmm Grueling? Transforming? Surprising? Just trying to think of the words to describe our year.  It started out with disbelief that we had actually left Mexico City.  We felt torn, yet at peace that we had made the right decision to come home so that our family could receive some counseling and give God time to heal us from some traumatic events.  So as Nathan and I struggled through questions,"God are you serious, this is your plan for us?" "You called us to plant a church and we were faithful, you planted a church and yet our family wasn't protected?! 
It was a journey of questioning and worrying and a lot of praying.  But through this whole journey, even when life felt crazy and out of control, I always had an image of Jesus with me as my Pastor.  I could see that he was always one step ahead of me as he led me by the hand and for some crazy reason even though I didn´t understand him anymore, I still trusted him.  Well, we continued to pray that God would not only heal our family but that he would also guide us and show us what was next for us as a family.  Should we stay in Canada, should we go to a different country or back to Mexico City.  I had committed and prayed Ezekiel 11:17-21 for our family every day.  And one day God answered that prayer to my complete shock.  You know when you pray and you really want to see something happen but you just feel in your heart that it is probably never going to happen well that is exactly how I felt.  But one day after an amazing prayer time that I could never of planned, there were lots of tears, there was freedom and forgiveness that flowed out of where there used to only be hardness.  And as if that wasn´t enough, every member of our family is very excited to go back to Mexico City and can´t wait to go back.  So here we are doing our normal home assignment telling the churches all about the work that God planted in MC and his faithfulness that we have experienced.  God is good ALL the time...even when we can't see it.