Besides being a great song by Billy Squier; this is also my present reality while my wife and kids have been visiting for the past week in Ft. Lauderdale. However, this is simply what I agreed to before we ventured off to CT to start a church.
Our talks as church planters (rightfully so) often revolve around the exciting adventures that God has laid out before us. We talk about the success, the struggle, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat and like that... The lesser told story behind each of those wonderful, epic stories is in a beautiful princess who has typically sacrificed in BIG ways to follow her warrior-husband on the trail of adventure and uncertainty (OK, I know I'm not Eldredge so I'll stop over-doing the Dungeons and Dragons imagery).
But seriously, being the relational creatures God has designed them to be, women are probably more effected than we can imagine when they uproot everything they know, and say goodbye to everyone they love to move to a strange land to help us fulfill they dreams God has birthed in our hearts. My wife is INCREDIBLY close to her family, and it was A BIGGER DEAL THAN I'LL EVER KNOW for her to move away from them. Knowing this, I committed before we came that (no matter how lean things get) I'll send her and the kids back to visit several times a year, and keep a standing invitation for her family to come visit us whenever they wish so they can remain as close as possible under the circumstances.
So a few times a year I'm lonely...BIG DEAL! It gives me a small insight into the sacrifice that my beautiful bride made to allow me to do what I do.
Bill,
it seems Squier was lonely a lot, at least your not IN THE DARK. Praise the Lord for that!
Posted by: John koontz | August 23, 2006 at 03:34 PM