Time keeps on ticking...

We have under two weeks left here, and we can't believe it. The time has gone so quickly. We are so thankful and glad for our time here and have enjoyed it tremendously: being with Mom and Dad, experiencing a different culture, meeting and working with a ton of great people, and of course the food! But it has also been a difficult time. We really felt before we came that God was going to make our next steps clear to us and give us a clear path to go down. I think we expected, because He so immensely provided for this trip and opened the doors to come here, that something big was going to happen. And we are slowly, and somewhat painfully, being reminded that God doesn't work within our time table or meet our expectations. He knows better!

While we have received a few offers on teaching positions here, neither of us is feeling at peace about returning to the country by the end of the summer. So for the time being we are planning on moving back to Milwaukee to kind of reevaluate our lives: goals, intentions, values. We are looking forward to going back home for a season and really investing in the city and our community, something that we didn't always make time for in the past. We aren't sure exactly what that looks like but we have been talking, praying and brainstorming how this might play out. With that being said, we are really excited to know that if we do want to be back in this place, we have multiple open doors waiting for us.

Although we aren't leaving here with a solid plan of what our next steps will be, we know God didn't bring us here for nothing. We are definitely feeling that He has been using this time to work in our hearts and minds and we think that once we get home, or maybe farther down the road, this work will be revealed to us.