two weeks' notice

It's a little overwhelming to think that we are moving in two weeks. The realization that we are leaving our precious friends & family has sunk in completely... I've been teary-eyed several times over the past few days as I've thought of all the people we love here in Texas and the time that is going to pass until we see them again. It's funny how human beings work... I don't always take time out of my busy schedule to spent quality time with the ones I love, yet I want the security/convenience of knowing that I could spend time with those people if I wanted to. It takes something tangible, like moving or illness, for us to really get our priorities straight -- to place our friends and family at the top of our to-do lists -- when the deadline pressure is enough to move us out of the worldly rat race and into God's "people first" economy. I am challenged and changed by the realization that my most valuable assets aren't the ones I am methodically packing into boxes, but the lives and relationships and emotional investments that I cannot wrap in bubble wrap and take with me. I am profoundly grateful that I have so much richness to leave behind.