A new adventure begins...

On Tuesday we packed our lives into a moving truck and made the cross country move to Atlanta. I haven't in my adult life felt so broken or cried so unstoppably. As soon as we said our final goodbyes I broke apart into a million pieces and sobbed without ceasing for the next twelve hours. It's been so hard to imagine any kind of quality life happening without the people I've shared so much life with over the past five years. In all my life I never experienced relationships like that before or had brothers who loved me and truly knew me. Our friends had become out truest family. Even now I have to fight back tears when I remember that I can't see them everyday. Jesus, I trust that my life doesn't stop here and that you're gracious to provide new friendships for us here. You're my only hope Father! Please take the next year of our lives and make it rich, fill it with intimacy and growth in our relationship with you. Bond Thiele and my heart together in new ways so that we're able to lead our family well. Jesus, we need you desperately. You're our only hope, our true and loving father. We put our trust in you God. Thank you for all the family we have in Chicago. Because of the hope you offer and that our family there rests on that hope I know the relationships will be sustained. You meant us for relationship and family when you created us and you've been so faithful to see that work out in our lives. Continue to be the lord of our lives. I trust you dad, you've never let me down.