The story so far. Part1

Last night Suzanne and I went for a walk, to blow off some steam, to get out of the house, to talk through some things, feelings etc... You know how it goes when you're waiting for visas to arrive.

A really important part of this whole venture has been the sense of rightness and it being a 'God-thing' from the word go, in-spite of any circumstance we've come across. I guess I'll have to tell the whole story now.

It begins way back in April last year when I applied to do a MTh in Practical Theology and Christian Ethics at Aberdeen Uni. The door was slammed shut in my face and once again when I appealed the decision. We had considered making a foreign move right about the time I applied to Aberdeen Uni, there were no physio jobs going anywhere and our adventurous spirits refuse to take the A-roads to anywhere. So we began to think about seminary in North America. We have several friends who have been to several different seminary's and began to compile a short list.

I won't bore you with the list, but we began to chop it down and as we did so I began to get cold feet. Two conversations were then had which were incredibly influential. The first was with Kyle, who told me to not worry about Scotland or the church needing me (as this was a concern of mine), in fact he said 'They will be fine without you.' Thanks Kyle, I seriously appreciated the timely downsizing! The second was with Jonny, a current Regent student, who I had many questions for. Regent had been on the short list, but got chopped. Following a conversation with Jonny, in which he totally answered every single question I had without having to ever ask, Regent got bumped to the very top. All this 2 days before the application deadline.

Seminary applications are a killer. We spent a long time getting everything together. And we duly skipped down to the post box one Saturday afternoon holding hands to post the Regent application.

You know what... That's enough for now. I'll leave the story like this and share one piece of news.

Tomorrow we will be boarding the plane for Vancouver. We definitely still feel the peace of God in this. I can almost tangibly taste how sweet God's answer to prayer is. You might wonder why, but keep following the story and I hope you will see that God is awesome, that he is totally in control, even when it seems that everything has run through your fingers like sand.