January has been a rough month for Ross and me. Ross has been sick twice, once with flu stuff and the next with stomach. I've been sick with viral stuff once that knocked me dead on my feet. We have been met with many decisions to make about life, leadership and family this month. It has been hectic at work for both of us - late nights and lots of understandably emotional families. Yet, the Lord has grown us closer and our marriage is stronger than it has ever been. We feel like we are in the process of waking up... For me it's the kind of waking up where your eyes are opening and you get a glimpse of the beautiful day, but you are still dead tired so you want to go back to sleep, so you do... Then you wake up and see how beautiful it still is outside, but it is still SO comfy in bed and you would just like to lie there a bit longer...It's a good place, but if you stay in bed all day you will get NOTHING done (in our case for the Kingdom). For Ross it's a bit more like waking up for a coma and he feels like he doesn't have time nor energy to catch up with the world that he has missed out on for the last few years. It's a bit like waking up into a tornado for him. As we take everything around us in, we are comforted by a Savior who is loving and the greatest Guide in the world.
In the midst of our crazy month, we have been watching Anne of Green Gables. Ross bought me the whole series for Christmas. Ross had never seen it before. So he has gotten to know a bit about Anne Shirley, Gilbert Blythe and Diana Berry. I used to watch Anne of Green Gables over and over in Japan because it was one of the only movies we had in English. I loved it! It was an escape into a place of brokeness, story, rescue, love, and redemption... I still love it. I spent every movie smiling and enjoying all the lines that I remembered from childhood and all of the beauty in a good, wholesome movie. I hope my kids will want to watch Anne --- and love it just as much as I do and as Ross did. :)
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