Thank God for His last-minute style

Today, we received our certificate of sponsorship for the UK (the day before we were hoping to send it) which is amazing after waiting for over a month...We just had to get on the road...ferry rides to and from Alaska are always a great time of reflection and transition.

We are quite blessed as of late to be the recipients of a NEW CAMERA with which we will be hopefully taking great pictures of our Journey through the years to come. After almost a year of being camera-less this is a real treat and an upgrade to say the least! These pictures are among the first we have taken with it.

Tomorrow we are sending off our applications for visas. Yay! We missed the storms on our 19 hour drive through Canada. The skies were blue almost the whole way, ...a bit of rain near the end. Quickly got through the borders, and had a good rest last night.

Here's a poem by Irish poet Joseph Plunkett, executed by British soldiers in 1916 for his part in the Easter Rising:

"I See His Blood Upon the Rose"

I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes,
His body gleams amid eternal snows,
His tears fall from the skies.

I see his face in every flower;
The thunder and the singing of the birds
Are but his voice - and carven by his power
Rocks are his written words.

All pathways by his feet are worn,
His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea,
His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn,
His cross is every tree.

Makes us think of this one great truth: The earth is the Lords, and all that is in it.

Be blessed,
J and C