Remember the Beverly Hillbillies TV show when Jed 'loaded up the family and moved to Beverly; Hills, that is...'? That's what we looked like as Deb, Vern, Amanda and all the stuff needed to support us for a week in Little Rock were loaded into Gracie (The RV-10 plane we built) for the trip home.
It was sure good to get home this afternoon in Gracie. Pulling off the runway and seeing a host of friends waiting to help us unload and gently help Deb out of the right front seat was a wonderful sight. How blessed we are to have such friends! Thank you! I can't help but think that there are 'Lone-Rangers' out there who will not even tell people they are sick. That's my natural flesh-pattern: gut it out alone. How do we survive that way? God created us to be in community and this life-event is really pounding that fact into my headbone! Hope I can always respond in kind with loving support when others encounter their life-events. I guess communication is a part of the package. How can you respond to an unknown need?
We got to the house to find that someone had broken in and stolen all our dirt and unwashed laundry and stashed some fresh chow in the frig! Hope they are blessed many times over! Thanks, angels!
It took 2:17 from liftoff to touchdown. Our ground speed varied from 201 mph to as high as 230 mph thanks to a nice tailwind.
Today we were flying from Little Rock to Tupelo, Ms (Elvis' hometown), to Gadsden, AL, to Carrollton, GA, to Peachtree City's Falcon Field Airport. The drive would have probably been 12-14 hours with the speeds, rest breaks, food,etc. Deb would have needed for such a trip. What a blessing to have Gracie available-thanks Dave and Steve! (partners in Gracie)
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Amazing - so glad y'all are home...although we know what it feels like to just be in the beginning of your journey. You often wonder how you will ever make it through the trips, the treatments, the waiting rooms, the bad food, etc... But you do and you will.
ReplyDeleteGod's strength is made perfect in our weakness.
And HIS community can shine in moments like this if WE will let them! You are so right - our natural tendency is to stay on an island, but you can't make it through cancer on an island.
I hope mom Darley is resting and recovering and I can't wait to see and speak with your daughter.
Love and prayers for you still
Candace