A brief update

This is a brief update without any particular news. I haven’t posted as regularly on this blog as in the past, and just want regular readers (if there are any of these) to know I haven’t abandoned it.

Our house hasn’t sold. In fact no one’s even looked at it. While I’m actually quite surprised at this, my wife and I at this point are figuring on sticking around. As it takes 30 days to close on a house, we would have needed to have an offer by today in order to make the deadline on our contract up north. We did fall in the love with that house, but not packing and moving is just fine with us. Our friends have joked about spreading manure on our lawn so no one will buy our Arkansas home, and others talk about how weird it is to pray that our house won’t sell.

We’re looking forward to what 2008 will be like for us. Hopefully it will be a time of respite. Even though we’re only at full support on account of a one-time gift, it’s my intention to more or less take the upcoming year off with regards to fundraising. I’ll still be posting to this blog, as the above paragraph suggests, although content may be historical more than current.

We are looking forward to a respite in 2008, in more ways than just fundraising — although without a doubt support raising is the number one or two stress point from the past four years of our life.

I’m looking forward to more time making art (my degree is in the fine arts) and researching the possibility of graduate school for both me and my wife. I’m also looking forward to a revitalized spiritual life, which art-making is a part of for me. The last year, perhaps especially the last 6 months, an acute distance has been present between me and God. Yes, even missionaries struggle with “devotions” (you should not be surprised at this).

Guess that’s all for now.