The past few months have clipped along, all the staff on base here investing in our winter Discipleship Training School students and keeping the facilities running by serving in our various departments. We've been a small staff during this season, so suffice to say we've kept busy. The flurry of activity intensified over the last couple weeks as we pushed through final preparations for sending the students to Asia. I felt like I was about to drop.
Then, just before six this morning, it was finally time. Our students were headed out to the airport, grouped in their outreach teams, to depart for the field assignment portion of the program. (They will be gone serving in various nations across Asia for nearly three months before returning to us in Maui to graduate.) It is exciting, as always, to see them launched into the nations to advance the Kingdom- knowing God and making Him known! But I admit, I was also just excited to have the school wrapped up so we could catch our breath out here!
Today has passed by in unusual quiet, the dozen or so remaining staff just cleaning and setting everything in order after the rush of the early morning departures. Its like making your way downstream from a waterfall. The roar dulls almost abruptly when and the quiet quickly overtakes you.
I am glad to have this interval of time on the base to slow down a little, to rest, to breathe. And a cup of tea is always a fine way to unwind and announce to yourself that you are doing just that:) So tonight I am curled up like a cat- and I confess, I am content just to be cozy and to be still. To drink my tea and breathe.
