Saudade...and TCK's

I recently read this article by a blogger, and thought the emotions I'm experiencing were described perfectly by it. I'm all wrapped up in happy/sad feelings. I'm excited to be so close to arriving in Japan but then there are times when I almost hurt physically from the sadness of leaving family/old friends/new friends here in Virginia.

Saudade is a word commonly associated with TCK's. Sometimes I feel guilty to submitting Finn to a lifetime of many transitions and tough good-byes. I'm leaning heavily on my heavenly Father during this time. I have to continuously remind myself that this calling is Finn's calling as well. To stay in America to shield him from the grief that is to come over the years would be to deny him living out that calling. Acts 17:26-27 tells us that God placed us each in our own particular time in history and places we live in order that we might seek Him.

Any parent's of TCK's out there want to chime in?

Tiny Mr. Finn - ready to reach the nations