3900 miles from home...

"Home, let me come home
Home is whenever I'm with you
Oh home, yes, I am home
Home is when I'm alone with you"

Iggy and I have made it!  We have officially been in Kaneohe, HI for two nights.  Iggy did awesome on the flights.  Our first flight was from KC to Seattle.  He basically slept the entire way and Frontier graciously gave me the seat next to me for Iggy.  Unfortunately, the woman across the aisle from me was detoxing from heroin and had to be escorted off the plane.  So sad, started the trip off in a weird place.  Nonetheless, we spent 5 1/2 hours in Seattle International Airport.  Everything goes faster when you are under complete anticipation of what's ahead of you.  The flight from Seattle to Honolulu (6 hours) was a full flight which meant I had to hold Ig the entire time.  I sat next to the sweetest high school girls.  It's an understatement to say they were helpful.

It was one of the sweetest sights in the world when Iggy saw Phil for the first time in two weeks.  Just precious.  As we drove away from the airport it became very real we were actually in Hawaii...not on vacation.  I truly have felt an overwhelming abundance of excitement being here.  It is so gorgeous and everyone is so nice.  Now we just continue the search for a home.  We are very blessed to house our friends Aubrey and Amanda.  I think this is going to be a blessing in disguise for sure.  They recently have encountered a very unfortunate rental agreement that sour.  I'm praying the woman that has taken advantage of them will feel it in her heart to make things right.

We have looked for the past two days and have had some great leads.  We could choose any of them really.  However, we have reservations in our hearts feeling as if we are missing peace on it.  We have wrestled with the possibility that this is short term and it's just a place to live, we won't feel that peace.  But at the same time we completely believe that God has us here for a purpose and that purpose involves our home.  It involves our neighborhood, our community.  God has a place for us here in Hawaii.  I hope we find it soon.  Maybe I should re-phrase that...I HAVE hope we will find it very soon.

Please pray for our home search and the community we will live in.  Please pray for our daily needs.  Please pray for our jobs and those we encounter through them.  Please pray for our sweet friends Aubrey and Amanda.  Please pray for our friends the Brooks (the family we are staying with).  Please pray for my Uncle Gerald during his two month travels from South America to home (on a Harley Davidson for charity).

Giving God praise today for my parents finally selling their home!!  Please pray the inspection passes on Monday.  Shouting praise for my sister-in-law, Leslie, whom will be hopefully working for Dave Ramsey here very soon.  Please pray for her and my brother, Micah's transition to Nashville.  They, too, have a home to sell in Gardner, KS.  Praising God for having friends in Hawaii while missing KC.

Thank you for being in our lives and keeping us in your prayers.  We are so blessed.