Kristen and I are infamous "non-planners" when it comes to vacation time. Rather, we aren’t the type to make elaborate plans months in advance of a trip. And to be honest this is mostly my trait and Kristen has just learned to go along with it.
As a result, we are always amazed at how God (and His people) just seems to take care of us. We never presume this is going to happen, I just try hard to not sweat the details of a trip to leave room for God-sized stuff to happen.
That seems to be happening with our upcoming trip next week. We made the "big plan" for the trip 6 months ago or so. We knew where we were going (on a cruise) so we knew when it left and when we’d return. We also had some big black hole unknowns that we chose to not try to work out from here. We always feel as though we’re better off making plans locally for the details than we are trying to figure it out from thousands of miles away. So the details of where we would stay and what we would do before and after the cruise were/are still up in the air.
Yet bit by bit, those details are getting worked out in far cooler ways than we previously imagined. I can’t wait to share those details later. And I’m not the only one stoked about this trip. I got this note from the captain of our boat last night:
I’m so looking forward to our trip!! Exactly 7 days from now we’ll be cruising up the westside of San Juan
Island, perhaps among a group of Orcas, on the way to our first nights
anchorage. Count it down!!
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