By wisdom a house is built,
    and through understanding it is established;
through knowledge its rooms are filled
    with rare and beautiful treasures. – Proverbs 24:3-4

Monday morning Rebekah and I drove back over to Wake Forest to meet the West Moving & Storage team who picked up all the cumbersome furniture we are nmo longer equipped to handle. Now it’s all about fine tuning the cleaning and making the place sparkle for whoever is fortunate enough to buy the nicest house in Tyler Run.

In forty-five years of marriage this is just our fifth move and I can’t believe how much there is to deal with.

• 1980: Small U-Haul from DeLand to Atlanta for our few belongings.
• 1982: From two-room grad-school apartment to our first house in Pensacola.
• 1996: Two adults, two middle-schoolers, one dog and one cat to Brandon.
• 2013: Just the two of us – plus Scout Labradoodle – from Florida to Wake Forest.
• 2024: The current situation. Only sixty-eight miles over to Tarboro, but logistically very challenging.

This, by the way, is it. Tarboro is our final destination so to speak. We will travel, certainly – especially once Rebekah retires again. And we may even temporarily relocate for another interim at some point (because we never know for sure what creative ideas God has for us next). But this is it, Tarboro; home base for the future. No. More. Moving. Period.

And once again, walking our old neighborhood as well as Tarboro, the glory of the fall colors struck a chord of joy in my heart.

So please continue to pray for us as we iron out some of the many wrinkles that come with a major move. Regardless, we know we are in God’s hands, and that confidence gives us not only hope but assurance.

In love, and because of love – DEREK