In The Blink Of An Eye

A year has come and gone.

And, in some ways it truly does feel like a year. The boys are bigger. We've completed our homestudy and done a fair bit of waiting. We've gone through the seasons of sun, rain, snow, rain, and now sun again. Noah turned 3. Santa arrived faithfully and left behind his usual "stash". Tait turned 2. We celebrated another anniversary.

Yet through all this, when my sister and Matt turned the corner and drove up yesterday afternoon it felt like she'd been gone just a short while.

In the blink of an eye a year had disappeared.

A successful year in many ways. A blessed year in others. A year of fruition and joy.

But an entire year had slipped away and it felt like no time at all.

The lives that R41P has touched in these past 12 months will never fully be realized. The goals they have achieved; the incentives and motivation they have catalyzed are greater than them. (You know...the sum whole is greater than the parts themselves.) The actions pledged and the beings they came to know numbers in the thousands - perhaps more.

The 11,000 miles they have covered; the hours of sweat, pain, exhaustion, passion and heart leave most of us speechless.

And though the year has passed In The Blink Of An Eye

I am confident that they are forever changed