just surviving

That is exactly what we have been doing. I don’t know when it happened but at some point in the last couple of weeks we went in survival mode. Just surviving is not good enough. Just surviving sucks. Kelly and I have not felt like we have been on the same page or I can put it another way, the chain in our relationship slipped a cog along the way and I didn’t recognize it right away and then I wasn’t exactly sure how to fix it. It has been very frustrating for both of us. We’ve had to ask a lot of forgiveness of one another lately. We each say things that we don’t think are hurtful but they wind up being. What we/people often say and we/people often hear are two very different things. This morning things came back into perspective for us. We got an email from one of our MTI family who happens to be in Uganda with Word Harvest Mission. She had just received word that some of her counterparts of WHM who are going through training at MTI were involved in a car accident. There were 6 people in the van from MTI heading to church in Denver. They were hit by another car and they rolled. 3 out of the 6 died, one of them was a 17month old. These people were all there for the SPLICE training. So for us just going through it in Dec. we know how close you become in those 3 weeks. Our prayer today is with our extended MTI family and for the instructors (Robin, Connie, George) who not only are mourning themselves but they are going to be the ones to help walk the others through this loss. I honestly cannot even imagine. It does not make sense. Here are a group of people that have said yes to GOD and are going into the mission field and now this. A dad seriously hurt, a mom in critical condition and there child is dead along with 2 others. One of the many things we learned at MTI is that GOD is not safe but HE is Faithful. Right now the only thing the people out there can do is to hang on to HIM. Interesting how tragedy always brings this life back into perspective. This life is short; who are you going to live for?