Safe Arrival!!

Mom, Dave, and Alex made it safely to China!!!
They had no problems with the flight and had very good travels!
Posting pics of Aric's mural on the walls in his room!

Prayer Request

I would like to ask for your prayers for safe and uneventful travel. :)

Not a good flyer - not that I am rude to the airline staff - I get motion sickness and have quite a fear of flying!

In my Daily devotional book I skipped ahead to our travel date to look and see what the verse was for that day and guess what the verse is?! "Do Not Be Afraid. I am the First and the Last." (Revelation 1:17) That truly instilled me with so much peace!! But then I read about another Mom (not to China) her awful flight and well.....

Rereading this verse now really helps and makes me feel stronger. Fear is an irrational emotion and I have heard all of the statistics about how much safer flying is. I am weak and only human. My goal is to give it up and give it over to God - this is what it's all about.

Lord, help me to keep on trusting you and your word daily. (prayer from devotional book!)

We would still wish for your prayers!!

Thank you so much!!

Joy :)

Time to Go!!

We are finishing up last minute details and as much planning as we did early on, we are still running around like mad people.

Aric's room is being painted right now - and we are having a mural painted. Our wonderful friends' VERY talented Mother is doing the mural. Alex and Aric share a room and on Alex's side there is a mural previously painted of Guatemala. Now Aric's is of China. I haven't looked in a bit, but she painted Panda Bears with bamboo, a village in Chongqing, and the Great Wall. Austin just told me she saw it and Barb has put a Happy Chinese (New Year) Dragon on the wall too. I can't wait to run up there and see it. Maybe I can convince one of the kids to put a picture of it on the blog.

Well I guess this is my last post before China.

We will be leaving soon to spend the night in Nashville so we can easily catch that 6:45am flight out to Newark.

Please pray for our safe travels and Aric's transistion as he is leaving everything he has ever known.

If you are following, please post comments so I know you are here!!! :)