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Excerpt #2 from Not All Roads Lead Home by Jane Bullard

Facing the future now meant stepping onto another of life’s blank pages.

…Forgiveness and the good we had learned healed us. As long as we were in God’s hands, old wounds were powerless. Like Jacob’s injured thigh after he wrestled with God on the eve of meeting his estranged brother, our marks of struggles with God only served to humble us, to remind how far God had brought us.

The more we trusted God, the more nerve and desire we had to launch out, to be tested, to reach further; yet, more than ever, we knew it would not be we who could assure that all would be well: it was He who was inspiring our desires and would continue to guide us, imperfect though we were.

We never doubted that anything worth having has its costs. That was why we tried to be sure that what we desired was God’s leading, not our own. We knew each other intimately. We had shared pain and anguish that are part of separation and estrangement.

We had even shared unawares the timing of new faith’s dawning. Further, we celebrated leaving the valley of loss, sorrow, and testing. We had accepted God’s forgiveness. We had entrusted our family into God’s care to make it all work together for their good.

It was normal to wonder about coping in Geneva. Switzerland. Although it was a challenging city in a beautiful country, it was not home. In Geneva, Josh would be a leader with global responsibilities in areas of war, natural disasters, disease, and other causes of human flight and displacements.

Where would I fit in? What would I do? Facing the future now meant stepping onto another of life’s blank pages. Only the margins were set – new roles, in a foreign city…together.

Notes on Excerpt #2: The above excerpt is adapted from Chapter 40 (pages 250-251), “Ready”, in NOT All Roads Lead HOME - A STORY OF RENEWED LOVE - Jane Bullard - Second Edition - Opine Publishing – (c) 2004 – All rights reserved.

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