It's been a while!

Wow, it's been a couple weeks I think since I posted here.  We are still plugging away at little details regarding our move.  It feels a little more real every day! Hannah built a website for us as another way to get the word out, so now we feel even more "official".  Check it out if you want.  www.bergfamilyafrica.com.

I'm not even sure if anyone is reading this blog!  If you are, please try to comment and I'll know someone besides me is seeing these ramblings.  (Thanks, Mr. Travis Gould, for your story earlier.  I loved it!)

We will be making the announcement in 3 of our church services this Sunday that we are leaving.  That's exciting, and a tad sad, too.  So many people there who mean so much to us.  And we still have some dear friends to tell, as well -- so I still haven't posted this blog to Facebook yet.  Hopefully soon, we'll be done with the "announcing" and moving on to the "packing".

We are still hoping and praying we'll find good homes for our 3 beloved dogs and our 1 spoiled cat.  Any takers?

I guess our only other news, besides the website, is that our move date has been changed from July 1 to June 3 (more or less).  We need to go to Mission Training for 5 weeks before we leave, so we are sandwiching that in between the end of the school year and our departure date.  It's getting closer all the time!

As I go through my list of good-byes, which I'm already saying every day......sometimes songs come on the radio that speak to my situation.  Today, the Sidewalk Prophets song, "You can have me" came on and it just stopped me in my tracks.  Here are the lyrics:

If I saw You on the street
And You said come and follow me
But I had to give up everything
All I once held dear and all of my dreams
Would I love You enough to let go
Or would my love run dry
When You asked for my life
When did love become unmoving?
When did love become unconsuming?
Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me
You can have me
If You’re all You claim to be
Then I’m not losing anything
So I will crawl upon my knees
Just to know the joy of suffering
I will love You enough to let go
Lord, I give you my life
I give you my life
When did love become unmoving?
When did love become unconsuming?
Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me
You can have me
I want to be where You are
I’m running into Your arms
And I will never look back
So Jesus, here is my heart
When did love become unmoving?
When did love become unconsuming?
Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me
You can have me
When did love become unmoving?
When did love become unconsuming?
Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me
My Father, my love
You can have me



Aren't those lyrics great, and isn't that what life is really all about?  


Our moving doesn't quite fit that all of that song, because actually, Tim and I have dreamed of being missionaries for a long time.  So, we aren't really giving up on all our dreams.  This is more like the fulfillment of one!  At the same time, there are a lot of "dreams" we are leaving behind as well.  Kerrville is a great place to live, with so many special people!  But following Jesus has GOT to be better than what is here, unless of course the place He's called you IS here! If He is calling us to Rwanda, then that has to be better than anything we might leave behind.  


More than me and Tim, this song reminds me of our kids.  They have everything they could want right here in Kerrville ~ yet they are willing to risk it all, leave it all behind to follow Him and see what He has in store for them in Rwanda, and to see where they can share His love to those without.  I don't think I could have done it at their ages.  I'm proud of them.


What is Jesus calling you to do?  Where is He calling you to go?  I'd love to hear about it!