Moot Thoughts & Musings

This has been a really trying past few months. I feel like a few sentences of summary won't do justice to the gravity of everything we've been going through. Sometimes I wish we were just having a baby. We've been thinking through a lot questions. Many difficult decisions have yet to be made.

But some questions are starting to get answered. More to follow...

First, our church probably won't last the month of May. We've been working hard at an OPC mission work here. We've been blessed greatly with good preaching and good fellowship, but some factors have come into play that have necessitated its door's closing. It makes us very sad. As many of you know, our committment to this church has been the number one reason we've been in NOLA this long. It's why we didn't leave when Chris left grad school. It's why I drive 85 miles each way for my grad school...and go to a school that wouldn't have been my top choice (though it also has many good qualities that commends itself to me). God's Word does not come back void. And it has been preached here. God will bring Himself glory in the way He sees fit. So I don't think the years here have been wasted.

Without a church community--or any community really--it's very difficult to think of having a baby in the middle summer. It's not exactly the situation I would've dreamed of having my first baby, in a communal void. So we've come to the decision to spend the summer in Philly with Chris's parents and mine close by. We have logistics to work out as far as insurance and doctor changing is concerned. I think our family would come to NOLA to help us if we stayed, but it's a much better use of everyone's resources if we go up there. We've been far from family for a long time, and haven't spent much time up there in recent years. It'll be good to reconnect and then to have their help and support and fellowship when we have the baby. Leaving NOLA for the hot months doesn't sound too bad, now, does it? Sounds like the best of both worlds. :-)

There are more questions. Like, where did all my energy go and how am I going to finish the semester without it? and other big ones. But since we don't have answers, we'll keep waiting and trusting. In the meantime, though, it's nice to have a faint glimmer of answer in the air after months of struggles and questions. Somehow "42" just doesn't cut it in the end.