The Waiting Game

I love this time of day, early in the morning when the rest of the house is asleep, but the world outside is waking up.  It is so quiet and peaceful.

I wanted to give you an update as to what is going on with the Erickson's.  Since I last wrote Garth went to Washington state to do a wedding for one of our dorm kids from Indonesia, we had a fantastic family reunion in New York, we have had family visiting from Poland, a few garage sales, a trip up north to Grandpa's cabin in Rhinelander, WI, and we are packing up our house. 

It is August.  We had thought we would be in Indo by now.  However, we are here waiting for our visas to be processed.  It could be anytime, but we heard from an Indonesian friend of ours that "the soonest it will start being processed is the end of August."  Emma started crying.  School starts there Aug. 20th and we will not be there in time for that.  Nor will we be there to open the dorm and meet all of the kids.  It is such a waiting game with the government there.  In all honesty, it could take months if they choose to.

The family that is going to live in our home has already moved in.  Right now, they are staying with their family but really need to be here.  We need to decide if we should start the kids in school here or just wait.  It is also quite the arduous task of buying and packing what we will need for the next two years all the while making sure we don't go over our allotted weight limit of luggage. It would be nice, once we get our lives all packed up, to find a place to live for the weeks we are waiting so that the family can move in here.

Please don't read all of this and think, "Oh, I feel so sorry for the Erickson's."  This place of waiting is a great place to be.  We have been in moments like this before.  God is always faithful.  In times like this we realize that He is in control and all we can do is hang on and trust.  He has never let us down in the past, and we know that we are completely in His care.

But you can pray.  Pray that all this works out.  That we have peace.  For wisdom to know what to do about the kids and school.  And that we have fun with each other these crazy days.

Thanks for caring about us.  We appreciate you.