When your children are little, it’s so hard to even imagine them packing their own suitcases, not to mention flying from city to city and country to country. It’s a good thing God prepares us slowly with baby steps. 🙂 Enjoy these days, Carrie. They are precious ones, too, and lay the groundwork for bigger decisions to come.

Thank you, Amber. She’s sent me a few pictures this week of her with the kids, and her beauty leaps out to me from there too. Of course I am prejudiced with a mother’s heart. 🙂 But the prayers this week have really made a difference for me. I’ve had far more peace than I would have (not that I have been anxiety-free, don’t get me wrong! ha). God has been so good.

So you travel all around the globe! Yes, I’m sure that does get quite expensive. I’m not sure when I’ll get back to El Salvador but I would love to see my friends again. I agree that the people there are definitely warm and generous. They amazed me.

Yes, I am glad they are willing to follow God wherever he leads. I just like when he leads them closer to home. ha. But trusting his wisdom far above my own!

I lived there 5 years, and we try to go back every other year, but sometime we don’t make it that often. It gets really expensive since we also travel to the US from Turkey to see family. Love it there. Warm, generous people. Hope you can go back sometime!

I have not seen that version of Jesus Calling but it sounds like a perfect format for journaling. You sound like my sister Sandy with your marginalia. 🙂 I love borrowing her books to read because she has them underlined, highlighted, marked up and over with her own notes. It’s fun to see somebody else’s personal reactions with a book.

Thanks, Betsy. And I pray that this summer will be time well-spent with your son before he heads off to college. That is definitely a difficult thing to do. I remember how hard it was with my oldest. Yet it was also fun times too getting to go visit her and watch her blossom in ways I hadn’t seen before. I’m sure you’ll experience all that for yourself as the year unfolds.

How awesome that your husband is from El Salvador! For the small amount of time I got to spend there, it sure did steal my heart. Do you get to go back often? I’d love to go back sometimes and visit a few of the families that I grew close to.