Homesick for the future!?!

It was my mothers 60th birthday last Thursday, and to celebrate, we headed out to a Thai restaurant in Blackburn South. What an experience! – the smells, the tastes, they brought us back to Thailand.

One of the Waitresses was actually on holidays from Thailand and heard that we had just come back from there – teaching English. Not surprisingly she assumed straight away that we were Christians. We had a little bit of a conversation with her, and had fun for the rest of the night.

The amazing thing was that both Naomi and I were struck with this sense of – um – what could only be described as homesickness – not that we can call Thailand our home or anything – we only spent 3 weeks there – but our hearts truly are already there – and God willing, in a year and a half we will be there…

A whole year and a half – I am really feeling impatient, but then I guess patience is meant to be a character trait of a follower of Jesus. And who knows what the Lord has in store for us between now and then – for all I know Thailand isn’t even in God’s plans for us…

Pray for us – that the Lord will be with us, we are still searching for a rental property in Noble Park, the struggle is mainly due to not many houses being available in the smallish geographic area we have set ourselves. We have not had many houses that we could apply for in the time that we have been looking – but we continue to look – next weekend there are hopefully another handful of likely candidates, but we will see.