Backroads…

 Backroads….

Adventure # ?….

My husband and I travelled some, China-2 times, Mongolia, across the USA, USA East coast, Alaska-2 times, trans Canada via train, around the islands of Hawaii, visiting children and parents  wherever they were….we had a bucket list and actually checked off a few…several got cancelled for various reasons. When I look at this accomplished list, I feel so blessed… But we hadn’t finished, when he got cancer…that was an abrupt halt…actually I felt guilty even thinking about traveling without him or even having fun without him…I finally realized I still had to live for whatever years God granted me…it wasn’t being disrespectful to go on living.

So I have a friend who was “willing” to travel and we had great adventures and travelled some more, plus I had the opportunity to travel with my children a bit as well…all were soooo fun and places out of the ordinary…

Now I have cancer, which has dampened the traveling quite a bit…not the amount of energy that I used to have, lots of meds and still under treatment…

My children/grandchildren continue to travel to “exotic” places, some on missions, some as pleasure…so seeing their photos is mostly my way of traveling now…enjoying their joy….

Yesterday, one of my sons drove a few miles of backroads after leaving my house…smelling the forest air, seeing the spring flowers in bloom on the mountain sides was a treat! Today, Lord willing, we travel on to one of my daughter’s home in Oregon…

Backroads or detours, changed plans are part of life…new chapters…sometimes they come abruptly…other times they come safely into life…

I think of Mary, mother of Jesus..she had an abrupt change when the Angel came to give her her Life changing news…or even the disciples, who quickly left their nets to follow Jesus…reading  through whole Word, people made life changing directional decisions, going on adventures that God had planned…

We are still doing that…maybe a few backroads along the way…

Jeremiah 29: 11 For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

Thank YOU…

Plans…

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