We live in Washington now! And it is a beauty.

January filled our hearts and a moving truck. February filled our days with looking for a home and coffee shops and restaurants. And in March, we fill our house – with belongings, prayers, ourselves, and those we love.

We still can’t get over what God has given to us in our new home. As we set it up over the next couple of months, I will share more about it!

We have begun to fall in love with the Seattle area and the weather and the flowers – and what extreme grace, that my godparents live here, and our dear friends from San Francisco have relocated here. So we have people, and we have that feeling of being home.

Hubs is thriving at his new job, where he is challenged and encouraged and advised and respected. He will be waiting until after our Europe trip to resume classes, so we can settle in.

I will be looking for a job soon, but first, I’m off to England this weekend with my parents! Still hard to believe that’s happening, but I’m looking forward to revisiting the motherland — actually, the fatherland, for me.

God has been gracious to me in this transition. I have had some depressed days and stressed moments, but overall my heart has been light and hopeful. I sorely miss our SF community, our neighbourhood, the park, the FOOD, the patterns of life we had there. Yet God has kept me emotionally limber, allowing me to adjust to this new thing with relative ease. We are making a new community, and now the challenge for me is to do the hard work of cultivating friendships in yet another place, while seeing to it that the old ones continue to flourish. But this is good work.

I hope to resume a regular pattern of writing again once I return from abroad. Until then, thank you, reader, for your prayer and friendship. Please pray that Hubs and I don’t settle for any lethargy or complacency, but that we pursue good rhythms and practices, and proceed wisely and prayerfully as we nestle into this home and life.

May the God of peace dwell with you richly.

xoxo,

E