I miss my sis

Ok, times up! It's been a week since Stacey and Jeremy packed there bags, cleaned their house and had hours left before flying South. So many people asked me if I was sad and going to miss them and in my toughness and lack of ability to think emotionally beyond the moment, said "Ya, but I am way to happy for them."  Well, I am still happy for them, but I think a week is long enough for Stacey to have fled the country. She is my go-to-person. I feel crapy, I call Stacey. I am bored, I text Stacey. I am excited, I call Stacey. I am at work, I text Stacey. I think I am dying from something random, I diagnose myself on the internet than call Stacey.
Now what?
Internet is just not the same. Facebook is good and email's help but what about when I need to text and call like right now?
Thankfully my wonderful friend Laura-Lie must have had some intuition and told me today that she can be my go-to-person when I need to just text, call or say Hi for a quick min. (thanks for knowing what I need :)

I should admit that Stacey did call me Saturday night from Fort Lauderdale and emails VERY often. SO I should not complain.

It has taken Stacey leaving to make me realize some important things about myself: such has how I am a medium poached egg. My heart is not soft and it's not hard either. It doesn't explode with tears and runny yoke on the first poked. It takes a few pokes, a couple of days for reality to sink in before I have some runny yoke. So it has been a couple of days and I am starting to realized how long it is going to be until Christmas!! (when I see my go-to-person again).

I guess in a positive light, I will be that much more thankful of my sister and Jer and eveything that they are to me when they return. So, until Christmas I will lend them to Haiti where they need them more than  I need to text Stacey with my bad health diagnoses. Instead she can give others answers on their health and really help people with more needs than me... but only until Christmas!

We are the world

It is so easy to be moved and impacted by songs like this in our hearts and minds, but it is not always as easy to be moved to actually move to a country and help people in desperate need. My sister Stacey and her husband Jeremy have been moved, not by this song (she had never heard this song before). But they have been moved by compassion to go to another country, Haiti. One of the poorest and underdeveloped places in the world. Stacey will be nursing and Jeremy will be teaching english. I am so proud of them  for not just saying, "isn't it awful what devestation is happening in the world, I wish I could help." They have packed up all of their personal belongings and stored them, rented out their place and pack two travel backpacks with as much necessities as they could fit and flew out of Canada this morning to Haiti. Many people have asked me if I am super sad that I wont see my sister for a long time, but the truth is I am way to proud of my sister to be sad.
Thankfully, Stacey and Jeremy will be flying home at Christmas time for a short two weeks before flying out once again to travel the world and continue on to help the helpless in Cambodia for another number of months.  (jeremy you are the best brother for buying plane tickets home for Christmas!!! I love you!).
Anyways, I hope the courage and ambition that Stacey and Jeremy have will spur the rest of us on to actually carry out the missions that God has given each of us. The possibilities are endless and so are the people in need around the world.  What dreams has God placed on your heart to do... meditate on it, pray about it and do it. Not easy, but something to seriously think about.
I love you Stacey and Jer!

check out their blog,

	http://www.marriedwithluggage.blogspot.com