Thankful today!

To those of you who saw the prayer request about favor with the landlady, THANK YOU for praying.  We have already heard back from her and we can just take over Millers lease for the second year and it looks like she will honor the price as well not raising the rent!  This was all part of our prayers and see this as another important piece in this journey.  We will be able to buy the Millers appliances and maybe some other pieces too, this is good for them and great for us, instead of spending an inordinate of time and energy looking for a place and then the lengthy process of setting up, installing appliances etc, we will move in and put milk in fridge, have functioning washer/dryer and stove!  Only those of you who have lived overseas can fully appreciate the magnitude of this provision! As we will be spending about one month every quarter in Ecuador over the next year, this maximizes our ministry time and makes the set up very manageable.  I would guess a couple of long days of work and we can have our boxes unpacked, sorted and things put away, ready to have you over for a cup of coffee!  Another fun fact is that we will be right down the street from good friends, the Vivancos and Christy Stumbo, around ethe corner from the living and learningr semester apartment, perhaps on the same street as the new boys apartment as well!  The Youth World office is within walking distance, as is La plaza de las Americas.  I am asking God for grace to go into a season of more travel and back and forth in and out of two places than I feel comfortable with!  However, comfort is not a goal here, and this certainly puts me in a place to again live Way BEYOND MYSELF depending on The Lord Jesus to go before me and be my continuity!  I am excited to give it a try and see.  We will evaluate as we go and we will constantly be seeking God's guidance, that never changes.  So pray with us, with me, for continued provision to cover every aspect of what it will take to be between worlds and engage well, be all there, wherever "there" is!  And please pray for our family too that a God will strengthen our bonds across miles when we are separated, and pray that my heart doesn't break when I say goodbyes -- I have been told that won't be easy with a grand baby!  Truth is my heart isn't really very good at goodbyes, never has been, maybe God will help me get better through all this practice?!?!  So, signing off from Quito, the next time I write I will probably be back in Lakewood!