Not Surviving...Striving

It's amazing how a glimpse of light, a smell or a texture can produce some of the most detailed memories. Soccer fields, winks, Wind and wildflowers.

I can remember being in middle school when my brother had to make this wild flower project of pressed and identified wildflowers for a high school science project. Every time I look to the side of the road and see wild flowers I am reminded of the tedious comings of that project. the work that went into what now seems so small and least complicated.

Hair color and length. How it feels to look and feel completely different than who we were not even a year ago. How the emotions inside make us look. How it pours out of our beings. Stone faces or wet eyes from joy over flowing.

Every day I am reminded that we must be living in today. So what about today? Today we have a rest day in Ipswich South Dakota. In the last week we have been in three different states. Slowly leaving Montana behind, we all survived. To look at the miles in them selves each day VS looking at a map. It doesn't always seem like we've gone very far but the truth is come next week we will be HALF WAY across the country.

 White Sulphur Springs, Harlowton, Billings, Forsyth, Miles City- Montana
We all survived Montana. It's true from the crazy wind, snow and high temperatures of 36 at 7am to the record high of 111 degrees in Miles City towards the east. On our way out we continue to praise God for all that he provides. Like a helmet that is now cracked but a skull that is not. For bodies that scab and continued thanks for Him because he heals... Bones, skin, Hearts and souls.

Baker- North Dakota
Devine Appointments I am very much thankful for and am so excited to see what other words God puts in our mouths to help build the kingdom more and more.

Hettington, McLaughlin, Ipswich- South Dakota













Perhaps because I feel half asleep on our day of rest or because I literally can't believe that we have ridden well over 500 miles this week alone.









Among all of this I have seen smiles arise through headwind, spoken word ignite hearts and prayers continually answered.





Here's to the next 500 miles, continued prayers and thanksgiving for what the Lord has in store... For all of it.

                                                                 Keep adventuring.