our aunt ruth

for those of you that know our aunt ruth, you know that she just might be the closest thing to an angel on this earth. seriously. we're asking that you'll join us in lifting her up to the Father. she's awaiting biopsy results on a mass the doctors have discovered behind her pancreas. there's quite a bit of concern as she's been weak, losing weight and in pain for awhile now, and the tumor was just discovered. please lift her up as well as the family that is surrounding and loving on her. thanks friends.

for anyone that wants to track it directly, she's joined the blog world for this journey and her site is http://ruth.apsley.org

the latest

It's probably not fair to call this a "new chapter" of life since we've been in transition since 2006, but we are entering another phase of transition.  The place we've called home since September of last year closed escrow this week - some people work themselves out of jobs, we work ourselves out of homes :} - so we moved out on Wednesday.  Most of our stuff moved into storage and we've accepted a gracious offer from some friends at Church to move into their guest room for the time being.  We're hopeful that the Father will be opening a more permanent door soon as Jason continues to submit his resume to various ministry opportunities and we look forward to an actual new chapter!

And for those who keep an address book, it's time to line through ours once again and replace it with the following for a mailing address:

387 Magnolia Ave. Suite 103 #322

Corona, CA 92879

and i looked up ...

... and it was MAY.

the horizon

i love the imagery of life having a horizon. because the horizon is always there. sometimes it's dark, sometimes painted in vibrant colors, sometimes cloudy, other times brilliantly bright. but always it holds mystery, promise, question.

change is on our horizon. yep, the millers are packing again. the home we're in has been sold and in about three weeks we'll be moving to ... ??? cast your vote now!

in the meantime, life is quite full and busy. the last few weeks have presented some really difficult challenges - and some cloudy horizons! but we had a fabulously refreshing weekend up in camarillo that helped put our hearts and heads back in perspective. check out these amazing pics of more time with the girls - we went whale watching but there wasn't a single whale on that horizon! thus the fun photo shoot with baby beautiful ...

umm, seriously, could they be any more beautiful?

like mother like daughter - check out those smiles!

and aunty boo's no fool to compete with that pose -

soph and i are going for delightfully awkward in this shot.

oh yeah, we so get each other ...

hope

hope. that all may experience hope in jesus christ. this is the heart and mission of 'hope of the nations', the non-profit organization we volunteer with that supports the ministry in tanzania that our friends, harold & coni, founded. we spent the last weekend+ with the missionaries and board members up above monterey (beautiful, anyone?). it was so fabulous to have days focused on the hearts and needs that God is calling them to meet there in various ways. opportunities abound to encourage real life change - real HOPE. we spent a lot of time talking about what we believe is an emerging paradigm of missions - the simplicity that we are all called to love God and love our neighbors. their neighbors are tanzanian. our neighbors are americans. the call is the same. the needs and means are different. neither those of us called abroad or called to stay are the answer in and of ourselves, and we are not here to DO for God. but we do have a reason for the Hope that lives within us.

we are excited to continue our service alongside those proclaiming this Hope on another continent. we are excited to remember the faces we love and lived alongside last year in tanzania. we are excited to know that the Body has different members with different purposes. but it is one Body with one Purpose. it is a great personal passion of ours to hope that the american church will recognize and remember these fundamental truths.