It's 99% Official...

It looks like we are moving south of the Mason/Dixon line. Tiger's been offered a promotion to go to the North Carolina office. We spent four days in NC last week, and we are very excited about what the company is doing there. NC itself is beautiful, and seems to be vibrant and growing. But far more important that a fantastic career opportunity for TIger or some adventure for us all, is the fact that since we first heard about the potential move back on December 6th, we've both felt with everything in us that this is the next step that God has for us. Visiting to North Carolina last week simply confirmed what we already knew in our hearts. I have no idea on earth why we would be sent there; I suppose that's why it is called faith. I don't need to know--the adventure is in the finding out.

While we were in NC I realized that all this started when, instead of praying, "Lord, get us to France," I began to pray, "Make us into the type of people that you can use in France." I have no idea what NC has to do with France. Perhaps I will be able to tell you in five or ten years; perhaps it has nothing to do with France at all and this is just the next step in the crazy journey Tiger and I began seven-and-a-half years ago.

We put a bid on a house our last day in NC; when the bid comes through for sure I will post pictures.

I'll tell you something that I keep telling my mom, who is beside herself at the prospect of us taking Lily far away: Unless there were depression-like conditions, we would never leave our family and friends "just" for a job. The job is only the vehicle for us going to where we feel strongly God is sending us--we're going for that reason, not simply a career move.

ANYway, we are a riot of emotions right now: excited at the impending adventure, unknown, and change, mourning the impending distance between us and our family and our dear, dear friends who have become as family to us. WE ARE ALL GETTING WEB CAMS! I feel our cell phone bill will soon be outrageous....