About 10 years ago

The good changes began a little over ten years ago.  My husband was too ill to continue doing full time carpentry and although we had paid off our mortgage we were unable to maintain the house any longer.  We had to make a change and make it quickly. Short version is that we ended up selling our house and moving to Tokyo to work with TEAM.  Once again the provision from friends and family to go on a mission was astounding.  It was a wonderful year that was cut short due to the death of my father in law, but it was long enough to feel we had accomplished the changes we needed to start making to change our lives.  We came home 10 years ago.  My husband Dell spent the next year unemployed researching his chronic fatigue and getting some real help.  I took a temporary job but it was the worst of the worst of jobs and I lasted only a few months before deciding to take a break as well.  By the following spring Dell had been accepted into seminary and we moved to Calgary and then to Saskatchewan for his education.  Watching him blossom again after all the dark years is an experience I won't forget.  It was so wonderful.  He is very academic but has a way of bringing his knowledge into every day life and situations and that makes him a good preacher person.  His last year in school he went to India to the OM campus in Hyderabad, about this time of year, to do several courses and that was an amazing experience for him.  For chronically impoverished people we have had the most fantastic experiences all over the place.
So all these memories are giving me fodder for future posts.  It seems reflecting on what has been will be a main theme here.  So now need to take a few days to think about it all and decide what would be best to blog about in more detail, and how to expand my horizons so it isn't all about me and mine.