1 year...

Today Brooke and I spent the whole day in a semi-comatose state while recovering from our separate bouts with the latest flu bug. While sitting on the couch having already watched way too much TV for a day Brooke asked what the date was. When I told her it was December 6th it dawned on her that today is the one year anniversary of our return from New Zealand. After she said this we both just kind of looked at each other with a sad look in our eyes.

Due to our naivete we had hoped a year ago that we'd be back in Auckland by now. We realized fairly quickly that wasn't gonna happen. However, we'd hoped that by this time we would at least have a clear date of departure in our heads. At this point that simply isn't the case. Throughout most of the year we were tentatively looking at sometime around April/May 08 but with support-raising going as slow as it has been that's not gonna happen either. Our new goal, for now, is to be heading out for New Zealand sometime around September 08. That might still be showing a bit of naivete but oh well, I'd rather be an optimist.

So here we sit... and wait... and wonder... and lots of other stuff, while we wait. We do wait with hope though that there is purpose in our waiting. That there is meaning in our meantime. And that there is light at the end of the tunnel.