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We're a Kind of Mush All Over the World

Unable to keep his eyes open. Unwilling to stand up when finally called to board the plane. Unsure what's going on. Unclean. Uncomfortable. Unprepared. Darby in this photo in the Seattle-Tacoma Airport represents the whole family on our sojourn from Atlanta to Korea. Pretty much undone. But as Michael W. Smith sang on the 1998 album "Live the Life," featuring that perfect 90s CCM tune "Missing Person," "I have been un-[a million things], but I know that I have never been unloved."  Before we headed out of Columbia, SC, the brothers and sisters at Arsenal Hill Presbyterian Church bade us farewell with some delicious sandwiches and even sweeter prayers. We were reminded that we don't go on this journey alone but with Christ and his body on earth (that's you, church). And boy, did we need some help. Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news? I'll do the preacher thing and give the bad news first and finish with the Gospel. The Bad News...

Conversation with Hailey

 Me: You gotta stop peeing in your pull-up. That's what babies do. Big girls pee in the potty. And then you can start wearing undies when we get to Korea.  Hailey: No. I just started wearing diapers.  Me: No, you gotta wear undies.  Hailey: I'm not ready for undies! Stupid little undies!