Well, I guess the need to journal has brought me back here...sorry for the delay to the four of you who follow my blog. ;o)
My precious son, Chris, left the Minguez "den" yesterday, to parts north - Alaska, to be more specific, and to Anchorage, exactly. Every time I'm asked "why?" my answer is the same - to follow the desire of his heart to be there...AND to be WITH the desire of his heart. Chris has always wanted to live in the "wilds" and Alaska seemed the best example of the Last Frontier
that would answer that desire. It didn't hurt that the girl of his dreams moved back there last August and has been beckoning him often, and yesterday his dream became a reality.
Our core family, Mike and I, and Kellan (and Aubrey, of course!) and Kiera, spent a family moment time together outside the baggage check aisle that would take him away from us to follow his dream. We will treasure those moments for months to come.
We are rational parents who fully expected the day would come that he would begin his own way in life, but you are never fully ready for it when it happens. His time in Iraq was equally as rending, but in God's mercy and grace he returned and life went on. While this is a very natural progression the distance makes the move more difficult. But, yet again, God will be merciful and full of grace in allowing the distance to only deepen our ties.
We look forward to the new life and opportunities that await him there and will certainly try and keep up better with the news here.
And the story goes on....
3 comments:
I grew up in Chugiak, 20 miles north of Anchorage and absolutely love it there and miss it so much. We used to go to Providence and I am a friend of Emily's which is how I happened upon your blog. Tell him to check out The Crossing church in Birchwood. It's great and my family attends there. I'm sure they'd love to have him and his girlfriend over for some moose lasagna sometime. :)
Thanks, Natalie! The moose lasagna sounds interesting. Please pray that they will be interested in attending a church. Sounds like a great place and your family sounds very generous. He was brought up that way and has a relationship with Christ but he doesn't spend quality time keeping up the relationship, if you understand. I will pass on the name of the church, though. Thanks again for the encouragement!
By the way, Natalie, Jessica, his girlfriend, teaches in Chugiak! Small world. ;o)
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