Monday, July 7, 2008

Making Right Choices in a Hard Choice World.


Gavin phoned yesterday. I know he is lonely with Jamie and the three children vacationing in Utah for the month of July. Gavin will join them for the last week of July. Jamie has missed her family and from experience, I know that the humid, hot summer climate of the New York coast is not fun with three small children in tow everywhere. A year ago, after graduation from dental school in Arizona, Gavin, Jamie, Braden and Abby moved to Long Island, New York. Gavin is doing a dental residency in pediatrics at Stony Brook University Medical Center. This past year has meant hard journeys for both Gavin and Jamie. Long hours apart. Long hours organizing daily family life in an unfamiliar environment from Phoenix, Arizona. Long hours of preparing and adjusting to their baby's arrival in January. To me, Gavin and Jamie have and are progressing through difficult times with amazing agility of faith, stamina, and joy. Gavin's phone call. He has been called to the Bishopric in their Long Island ward. This calling is a culmination of Gavin and Jamie making right choices in a hard choice world. 
God Bless.

2 comments:

Lyndsie Miles said...

Wow! That will be so much work, but they will be blessed.

Pg. said...

Bishopric! That is neat.