Back in the States

A month ago, my husband took a trip to the states for a respite.  He stayed with our Pastor and his family for his 3 weeks stay.  A week before he was scheduled to come back to Ukraine, he informed me that the Lord wanted us to move back to the states.  I knew for a little while God was dealing with him about something, but I did not know what. 

So here we are.  Back in the states. It's hard to believe we are now back in the good US of A.  It is very different, even though we were only in Ukraine for two and a half years.  It is weird not hearing Russian everywhere we go, and even weirder for other's to hear us jabber in Russian.  We do get many strange looks :)  I am very much enjoying seeing all the new things in Wal-mart that they didn't have when we left.  All the new kinds of food products, and the ones that we missed so much....such as good old BBQ sauce!!! 

But, within myself there is a struggle.  I miss the people that we saw come to the Lord, and those who were already saved and serving their in Kharkov.  I miss the fellow Americans that we served with.  It was a great learning experience for us.  I still ponder why God would bring us back so soon.  Was the Lord done with us there?  Was it because of the growing war there in eastern Ukraine?  Was it just a training period for us to prepare us for something else?  So many of these things weigh down my brain.  

It was very hard to leave.  Some of the members were so confused and didn't know why we were leaving.  My husband explained to the church that this was God's will for us to go back.  Everyone was crying on our last Sunday there.  I know some in the church had contradicting feeling about our leaving and did not feel it was the will of God.  That made things so much harder.  I still struggle with it a lot.  But something my Pastor mentioned in a recent message helped me... Bloom where your planted.  No matter where we end up in life, we need to continue to work and be content with where we are.  It's easy to say, but not so easy to live.