{"id":3974,"date":"2012-12-07T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","slug":"sadness-around-the-table-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3974","title":{"rendered":"Sadness Around the Table Tonight …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

… as we had to let the kids know that we won’t be heading to Haiti this January.\u00a0 We had all gotten our hopes up, but it is simply not to be.\u00a0 Melissa and I are still processing it, and it leaves us feeling a bit deflated, but we know the Lord is the master of the calendar.\u00a0 “There is an appointed time for everything.\u00a0 And there is a time for every event under heaven.” (Ecc 3:1)\u00a0 I had tried not to get my hopes up too high because I learned long ago that I am very bad at trying to predict God’s timing!\u00a0 But still … our hearts long to be in Haiti and that longing is hard to endure\u00a0in Indiana.It’s all kind of ironic, too.\u00a0 When God first began calling our family to Haiti through Melissa’s short term trip in June of 2010, she said No…No… No.\u00a0 For at least three months.\u00a0 Now He has to hold us back from rushing forward!\u00a0 So, while not trying to predict God’s timing, we still have to look forward to a future departure date.\u00a0 There’s a slim possibility we could go and help finish out the school year in April and May if funding is in place by then, but more than likely we will not be moving to Haiti until August of 2013, in time to start the next school year.\u00a0 In the meantime, we’d appreciate your prayers for patience and wisdom and for our funding.\u00a0 Please pray for the kids as well.\u00a0 Far from being afraid or hesitant to move to Haiti, they are looking forward to it.\u00a0 In fact, Caleb did some crying in bed tonight about not going in January.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The urgency we felt to get to work in Haiti\u00a0this January still remains – now in the form of a deep frustration.\u00a0 And there’s nothing we can do about it.\u00a0 >DEEP SIGH<\/em><We do appreciate your support through this (long) process so very, very much and the encouragement we have received along the way.“<\/sup>He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity \nin their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from \nbeginning to end.”\u00a0 – Ecc 3:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… as we had to let the kids know that we won’t be heading to Haiti this January.\u00a0 We had all gotten our hopes up, but it is simply not to be.\u00a0 Melissa and I are still processing it, and it leaves us feeling a bit deflated, but we know the Lord is the master […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}