The Fog

This morning while I was driving to work there was dense fog that set in around the woods and countryside. My drive to work consists of some back roads along farmland and at one particular spot, I was struck by a thought. The road at this point is straight and flanked on either side by cornfields. But this morning I couldn't see a thing and really had to be on the lookout for when the road started to curve. It was beautiful and yet mysterious and somewhat uneasy.

Right now we are in the middle of a thick fog. On Monday, Jason's work announced that they would be closing some of their bases and, of course, one of them is where Jason works. The pilots who are left in the dust will have to choose from a small pool of other bases scattered around the country. We LOVE living in Virginia! But of course there are no open positions at the other bases in this state. With great sadness, our hand is being forced to move elsewhere. In the next couple of weeks we have to make a decision that involves factoring in lots of logistics. Please pray for us as we work through this fog. The road has been straight for some time now and we have no idea where and when it will bend. We don't know if the road will ever lead us back to Virginia and this part of the country. We don't know, honestly, if we'll like what we see further down the road. We don't know...

I do know that even though the fog was thick and reached up to the treetops, there was sky to be seen up above. A patch of sky opened up to sunlight and it gave hope that eventually the fog would melt away. We are confident that this fog eventually will lift, but the Sonlight is what keeps us hopeful and pushing forward when we can't see. The one truth I try to cling to is that this world is not our home. So as we wander again as sojourners, I know that houses and churches and jobs and zip codes don't matter all that much. There is a home that I can settle into for good...it's just a few more bends down the road.