change

We all go through it, all the time. When huge changes are about to happen it can really throw ya. I think that is what we're experiencing in the present. The date for us to fly across the pond is the 22nd, which is less than three weeks away. This means that massive changes (who we hang with, where we live, what we eat, what is familiar etc...) are about to happen. I think that makes one want to cling to what they are familiar with and what they have grown up with. That's why we are relishing each moment we can during this final stretch, it is a weird feeling. But I think about how difficult and gut wrenching it must have been for guys like William Carey or Hudson Taylor who left all that they had to go to a foreign land, knowing that they would not see friends, family or familiarity again (at least until the unfamiliar was then familiar). Think about how tough that would be to sail away not sure what you're going to find, knowing that you're probably never going back. We are not in that state, communication is easy, air travel is a piece of cake compared to old world sailing, even so change is not a walk in the park. e