We’re home!
Two weeks ago, we climbed off the plane at Vancouver International Airport after 41 hours of travel. I stood face to face with the border guard who granted me permission to stay in Canada for the next few months, and we moved into our summer place. Boy, are we relieved!
The reality is sinking in, the gift we’ve been granted in being together this summer. Frankly, as I reflect on this last year, it feels like the day after Christmas. The flurry of the big day is over, wrapping paper is littered all over the living room floor, the sweet presents that I so earnestly desired are sitting in a beautiful pile (intentionally left out to preserve the fun of the day before), and contentment and gratitude pump from my heart to every crevice and corner in my body. This last year has been like that- a little messy (with all of our things packed in a storage room, or a basement, or crammed into our small closet), a little crazy (from meeting Jeremiah, to our engagement, to planning a wedding in three months, and launching for Malawi) but oh so beautiful, oh so worth it, and everything I’ve ever dreamed.
Jeremiah and I are here, together. We just celebrated our six-month anniversary, together. And we get to live the rest of our lives, together. There’s no greater gift that I could ask for, beyond the freedom that we’ve been in granted in Christ, than to be with Jeremiah.
Am I still in the honeymoon phase? 100%.
Do I pray that the wonder and gratitude of being together will never wear off? Every day.
We’re thankful for our months in Malawi. We love and miss our friends there and are beyond grateful for the opportunity we got to learn the art of slowing down, investing into the community around us, and sharing our knowledge about child safeguarding. We are greatly blessed from our experience there. To top it all off, Jeremiah is officially graduated!
Thank you! Thank you for your donations, thank you for rooting us on, for mentoring us, for walking alongside us as friends and family, and for praying for us, as we know so much of our favor with the border guard came from your petitions. We are so overwhelmed by your support, and we pray the Father blesses you richly this summer, as He has blessed us!
We love you all so much!
Until next time,
Zikomo!
Diana Wilson
Our First Journey Together 