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Oh goodness, hello!  We're alive and here and thankful to have Matt safely back!!

He had a great, freezing cold trip, with lots of networking and lots of learning.  Last week was a wild week at Emmaus with a rather challenging Friday (it'll be funny one day, just not yet), so he's got quite the load this week, but is happy to be home!

We all missed Daddy, too, so win-win!

Our intensive courses wrapped up Friday, the Lain's leaving the same day and Pam getting ready to go on Monday, along with Phil and Emily.  Rick and Carol are here to help with the classroom building and maintenance projects and the finances, and Nathan, a seminary student from Kentucky, is wrapping up some curriculum review stuff and leaves Monday, too.

That all means that Monday our residential staff starts teaching!  I've got Mondays and Wednesdays this semester for English and Matt's up on Fridays with Biblical Hebrew.

We had 20 staff and students in two different directions yesterday attending the funerals of the mothers of our two students...I'm anxious to hear how those went and having lost my own mom my first year at university, I'm just feeling for them! I love how anxious our community is to come around them. This morning the crew is off to DiFour for church, and Lily is doing the scripture reading and super excited about that!

We're so thankful for all the beautiful people who have been here teaching, for the month we've been able to share our lives and home with Pam, and for the people who help us, especially while Matt's gone!

I've been renewed/reminded the last few days how important it to is to be in the habit of turning immediately to God in prayer with our burdens and struggles and worries.  I'm so THANKFUL for the way He's been still-small-voicing me this week to turn our staff, our students, our family, our children, our blessings and our burdens to Him, first....first, last, and in the middle.

Thankful for a God who not only sees, not only hears, not only cares....but MOVES.