From Curtis:
With
tickets now in hand and bags (getting) packed, Katie and I can hardly wait for
our arrival in Bogota, Colombia. This new chapter of our lives holds so many
promising opportunities, challenges, frustrations, achievements, relationships,
and so much more.
I am
constantly thinking about the excitement of the ‘new’ that everything will hold when we are first seeing,
smelling, hearing, experiencing this new home. On arrival, all the buildings,
homes, parks, gardens, will be brand new. I won't understand all of the meaning
of all this newness being experienced. As days pass on, and familiarity starts
to set in, however, all of the new things will start to gain meaning. Knowing
how things fit together, how they work, as the exciting newness fades into a
more comfortable familiarity, will push us to build our community, our network
of family and friends amongst the brothers and sisters we are soon to meet.
Finding
and adjusting ourselves into the rhythms of a different culture will be both
challenging and rewarding. It will push us out of our comfort zones. It will
help us find new meaning in practices we have grown accustomed to. The rhythms
will help us gain more understanding of the humanity that we are a part of.
