It’s official now; Mike has a winging date, May 11th, 2012! He will then be an official an USMC helicopter pilot, which means we will be moving shortly after. Like two-three wks later! Unfortunately we won’t find out until a few days before he wings what he will be flying and where we will be stationed. We are still praying for CA but will truly be happy with whatever we get. Especially if that something happens to be HA! I have recently watched so many movies filmed there and desperately want to visit. Anyways, we can hardly believe that the end of training is so close and that we will soon have to say goodbye to all the wonderful friends we have been so blessed to know. So what do you do when you know you will be moving soon? Everything that you wanted to but always kept putting off! So we finally did things like play Frisbee golf, lie in our hammock in the park, drink some beers from the local brewery and eat at lots of our favorite places! I also made my self sit still and learn how to sew pillow covers for our couch pillows…and they turned out great! And we can’t forget the beach! We have been hitting the beach up often, well mainly me, but I am getting enough sun for the both of us : )
We have also been using this time to reflect back on our time here and discuss things we loved, things we didn’t and how we can do things differently at our next station. We have been blessed with living in a great house and a gorgeous neighborhood but we wish we would have taken more time to talk to our neighbors, to get to know them more, invite them over, invest in their lives. Most of them are a good 40+ years older than us but that shouldn’t matter. The Lord recently has placed on my heart a strong desire to make myself more available to the people close to me, not just friends, but neighbors as well. It’s not easy because I am perfectly content with keeping to myself and smiling kindly at strangers, but when I am being filled so much with Christ’s love, I find it hard to keep it from overflowing. Which is exactly what God wants! I can clearly look back in my past and think of countless times I kept the good news of Christ to myself and never shared. What a waste. Our prayer for the rest of our time here in FL and our next station is to make His name and love known. To be bold, loving and caring. To be transparent with our lives. After all, isn’t that what being a follower of Christ means and isn’t that what we called to do? We believe so.
Off to soak in the sun now!
