This is a test. As we have been away from the blog mode for some time, we are just now beginning to re-learn the process.

September 14 will begin a new phase in our journey through life together, stepping away from the comfortable life we now share with our family and friends. We are filled with excitement, uncertainty, hopes, questions, dreams, possibly unwarranted expectations, and a memory that sometimes modifies experiences.
Hopefully we have anticipated our packing needs sufficiently, and can open ourselves up enough to listen to the stories of life as the young men and women we left behind in Malawi 2 years ago have come to experience it. Every day we think of some other bit of knowledge we might have spent more energy acquiring. Something to work on when we return.

Are we ready? Of course not! Have we ever been ready for the next challenging experience just around the corner? Not yet, and yet we have always been provided with enough so that we find ourselves learning and becoming with each step. Even starting this new blog is proving to be an introduction into a world we somehow miss with all those eager and hope filled faces.