Wow, Joel, that one brought me to tears. I feel like I could have written it myself. Being right smack dab in the middle of formation, this hits so close to home. We may be going kicking and screaming but we're going because He called us to go and who are we to argue that? "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness." That has been a theme in our life since we finally let God take the reigns back in July of 2012. Thank you for this. I needed it today.

This is so true! God's timing rarely matches up with ours....He knows better ...and you could tell people- good thing I'm not Byzantine or God might ask me to be a priest! ;)