Time to Be Home

Today we ventured home with smiles on our faces. What an epic summer of Rooted and Rising as a family in Christ. We learned a lot about ourselves and each other – beautiful and good things and difficult and challenging things. Like all of life, we are being made new.

Of course we needed to do some back to school shopping on our way home. With supplies now purchased the kids will be ready for Tuesday and crossing new thresholds for the year ahead.

The season has turned from summer to fall. This sabbatical chapter has now ended. We were blessed to be a blessing and that is what we look forward to doing. Time to be All In with everything before us.

Thank you to the Lilly Foundation and to Grace Lutheran and to all of those who made this time and experience possible. Pure grace – pure gift – pure life!

This sabbatical blog now ends and will be adapted to become a life’s journey blog of thoughts and reflections along the way. If interested, you are welcome to follow along here.

Step by step we go into the future. Thanks be to God!

Prayer for the Readers

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. ¹⁶ I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit ¹⁷ and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. ¹⁸ I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth ¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.