It's just beginning.  This past Sunday evening, the Bible club that our kids go to on Sunday evenings had its closing program.  And I watched my little kiddos say goodbye to friends from there that they may never see again, and I watched them say goodbye to teachers and guides who invested in their lives and faith growth and I felt a little bit sad.  The kids for the most part seemed oblivious to the fact that they wouldn't be back next week and that this was saying goodbye for real, but that's how life is as a kid I guess.  You just keep moving on and experiencing whatever is happening at the moment, not so worried about what's coming up next. 

In the next months we'll also say goodbye to teachers and school friends and then neighborhood friends as we move from Dallas to St Louis at the end of June.  I seem to take it harder than anyone else.  Katherine was already upset a few months ago that we would eventually have to move again.  So we'll see how that all pans out.  The relationships we build are of great value, but we usually don't realize how great the value until we are leaving them.  This too, is part of the missionary experience I guess.  On the move.

Grace & Peace.