Countdown to 40 - 2005

This was a challenging year for us as we tried to make the adjustments to life in Northern Virginia. At one point we seriously considered packing up our bags and moving back to Minnesota. Why didn't we? A few good friends came alongside us and reminded us that God hadn't finished with us in Virginia and that we had a calling to fulfill. They were right. I cannot overemphasize the importance of trusted friends as you seek God's will for your life.

We took a family vacation to VA Beach and enjoyed time playing on the beach and jumping in the waves. A couple of months later child #3 would enter the world some 90 minutes after we pulled into the parking lot of the hospital. It's hard to believe that this was three years ago.

We also learned that our friends Nick and Jen Greener were living in Alexandria. Nick was working with the Luis Palau Festival team to host the DC event.

May of this year Nick and I climbed into the car and headed for Philadelphia for the day where we would tour the city and then make our way to the Wachovia Center to see U2 in concert. The evening was great, I will never get over the ability of Bono to get tens of thousands of people to sing the Psalms as they close out their shows with "40," their rendition of the 40th Psalm.

It was January of this year that I began my blog!

It was a challenging year at the time, in retrospect it was a  great year.