Thursday, November 08, 2007
The Purpose of our Trip Home
We've been home for a week now, and we're finally getting back to normal. I've been busy trying to get caught up with MOMS club stuff, with things going wrong the entire time. I've also been trying to get my house back to normal with Carlee trailing less than a foot behind me, creating new messes. Speaking of Carlee, we're also dealing with her being in attention/spoiling withdrawal. Nice. :) So, to post about our trip home.
We had planned so many things we had wanted to do. Along with visiting family, we had wanted to go to vegan restraunts, see tons of movies, go thrift shopping galore, etc. But our trip ended up being intended for a whole different reason. I hate to refer to Evan Almighty again, BUT there's a part in the movie, where God is telling Evan he wants him to build the ark. Evan starts saying how he can't because it doesn't fit into his plans of making it in D.C. and goes into detail of what he had planned to do with his life/career. God just looks at him and says, "your plan?" and laughs.
That's how I felt about this trip. God had different plans for us. It's just amazing to us how everything happens for a reason. There was a reason we didn't make it down in August, a reason September didn't happen either, even a reason for the flight schedule changing at the very last minute. We were meant to be home exactly when we were.
Tony's Grandma passed away the last week we were there. We are so grateful that we could be there, that we were meant to be there. We were able to visit with her just a day before she had her stroke. I'm so glad we were able to do that. Tony was able to say goodbye, and come to peace with her passing, and was able to spend a lot of time with his family.
And this was the purpose of our trip.
Rest in Peace, Lupe. We love you.
We had planned so many things we had wanted to do. Along with visiting family, we had wanted to go to vegan restraunts, see tons of movies, go thrift shopping galore, etc. But our trip ended up being intended for a whole different reason. I hate to refer to Evan Almighty again, BUT there's a part in the movie, where God is telling Evan he wants him to build the ark. Evan starts saying how he can't because it doesn't fit into his plans of making it in D.C. and goes into detail of what he had planned to do with his life/career. God just looks at him and says, "your plan?" and laughs.
That's how I felt about this trip. God had different plans for us. It's just amazing to us how everything happens for a reason. There was a reason we didn't make it down in August, a reason September didn't happen either, even a reason for the flight schedule changing at the very last minute. We were meant to be home exactly when we were.
Tony's Grandma passed away the last week we were there. We are so grateful that we could be there, that we were meant to be there. We were able to visit with her just a day before she had her stroke. I'm so glad we were able to do that. Tony was able to say goodbye, and come to peace with her passing, and was able to spend a lot of time with his family.
And this was the purpose of our trip.
Rest in Peace, Lupe. We love you.
Labels: October 07 Trip, visiting family
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