Before we left for Italy, i knew i was willing to suffer for the sake of Christ. Yet while we were going through these trials, i kept telling God this was NOT what i had in mind, this was NOT what i signed up for. We had been convinced that our faith in God to provide for us was going to bring Him glory. It seemed that He had missed the opportunity I was handing Him (you absolutely must read that with the humor intended).
The remainder of the timeline in Europe:
12/5 – we asked for money to buy our return tickets to the U.S. to work on qualifying for our visa, and by evening of
12/7 – all the money needed for plane tickets was in our account.
12/7 – on the spur of the moment, we went with several members of the church to GardaLand (a theme park very much like Silver Dollar City), because one of the members was paying for the trip and it meant a free lunch for us.
12/10 – took a train to nearby Venice for the day with Christmas money from my family. It was upon our return home that evening that Randall started coming down with bronchitis.
12/31 – Randall’s birthday. He walked to the hospital at 6:00 am to receive emergency care for his bronchitis.
1/7 – flew out of Venice to London; Andrew cried as we ascended out of Italy – he did not want to leave. Missed our flight departing London because of complications of getting from one airport to the other, but as it turned out our flight, as well as all flight for the next 4 days, was cancelled due to extremely bad weather. So our serendipity was getting to spend 4 days in London with our hotel and one meal per day being paid for by British Airways. FOOD!
4/5 – visa still didn’t work out, Randall offered a job with Rid-a-Pest in Oklahoma, so we moved to Tulsa.
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