Saturday, July 18, 2009

We are on our way...

Several years ago I saw a family of six being interviewed while they were traveling around the world and homeschooling their children for a year.  What an incredible experience and I thought that our family of six could take on this adventure - however - I did not get quite the response from my family that I had hoped for.  After many years of trying to convince that it would be a good thing for our family - they finally were giving in to the idea and that it might not be a bad one.  Especially after pouring over all the blogging content that is out there and all the many other families who have taken this leap of faith and left the material things of this world behind, packed the bare minimum and set off for the journey of a lifetime.  Last May (2008) we finally thought that it could be  possible to plan and execute our dreams.  For the past year, we have planned, hoped, prayed that we were doing the right thing.  My 8 year old son packed his bags one day and told us he was 'running away' because he did not want to have to get all the shots.  He was back in 10 minutes and in the end we did not have to get any shots.  The only way that we could have taken off for a year and taken on this adventure, was to have rented our home fully furnished.  We gave ourselves a date of June 2009 - and if we did not rent we would not to take off.  We prayed for wisdom, discernment and guidance.  I did not want to take one step ahead of God's plans for our lives.  It is so easy to get caught up in what we want in our lives and take our eyes off on the ONE who sees all - who knows all - the Almighty!  His word tells us that if we 'seek first HIS kingdom and righteousness, then all else will fall into place".  I truly believe that he put this desire into my adventurous heart - but it is not the time to take 10 months off.  My art business is booming with business and I am humbled to say that Prince Albert II of Monaco, The Ambassador Giles Noches and the Counselor Lorenzo Ravano were all presented with paintings from the Angel Series last week.   
SO - we are not taking 10 months off - we are going to take 1 month off and travel in Europe with our precious children.  This will be a great opportunity for us all to regroup, knit together as a family and just enjoy part of our Around the World trip.  Each of our children is going to be posting blogs of where they have been and their favorite part of the trip.  I will be taking thousands of photos to come home and PAINT and gear up for the Fall and the shows that will be.  Clark will hopefully just relax and know that we serve a GOD who is in control of ALL things and in the end He is Jehovah Jira - our provider!  
We leave July 23rd and start in Milan, Italy...we return August 20th out of London....Stay tuned!

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