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This is what I miss.
Summer.
Emerald fields, effortless in their expanse.
Clear blue skies with the fluffiest, most brilliantly white and fabulously carefree clouds you’ll ever see.

I miss the confidence that comes from knowing a place so well, you can notice the slightest change, the tiniest shift. This is also beauty.

I miss driving a car, but specifically, driving in a car with the windows down, blasting oldies and singing at the top of my lungs. Genuine sadness overtakes me upon thinking about any person who has not had the chance to feel such freedom and abandon!

I miss my mother’s cooking, the familiar tastes and being able to guess what’s for dinner from the aroma wafting its way up the stairs.

I miss drifting to sleep to the sound of crickets at night, singing their love songs to each other and in turn to me.

I miss the summer rain – both the sweet, warm showers and the angered, fierce thunderstorms. Each are awe-inspiring in their own right, always reminding me of the God I serve, at once tender and all-powerful.

So to remedy this homesickness, I have booked our tickets home for the summer!

We arrive July 3rd, and will head back to Taiwan September 10th. The six weeks at home will, we hope, be enough time to see everyone, pass around hugs and babies, work to pay for the tickets, see family and go camping at least once!

Can’t wait to give you all your own smile, and catch up on what the last year has brought in changes to our lives, dreams, opinions, musical tastes and of course, most importantly, relationships with God.

Please pray for us! as we finish these last weeks of school. Things are getting busy.

Love

Emily