My passport expired. It's done, invalid, kaput. I can't leave the country anymore. My life of travel is over and I'm never going anywhere ever again.
That's kind of what it feels like. I'm going to renew it, and hopefully use it. Soon. (That's a hint for you, Kevin).
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Don't worry... even if you don't travel in the near future you will get to go on a couple's mission when your children are grown and you will probably get to go on anniversary trips for your big anniversaries (10, 15, 25, etc). Besides, you are now embarking on a "trip" that is WAY better than one to another country. You are going to be a mom! You will grow, expand your horizons, change, learn things you would NEVER learn by traveling. Let me quote you something from one of my favorite books, A Lantern in Her Hand.
"You know Grace, it's queer but I don't feel narrow. I feel broad. How can I explain it to you so you can understand? I've seen everything....and I've hardly been away from this yard. I've seen cathedrals in the snow on the Lombard poplars. I've seen the sun set behind the Alps over there when the clouds have been piled up on the edge of the prairie. I've seen the ocean billows in the rise and the fall of the paririe grass. I've seen history in the making....three ugly wars flare up and die down. I've sent a lover and two brothers to one, a son and a son-in-law to another, and two grandsons to another. I've seen the feeble beginnings of a raw state and the civilization that developed there, and I've been part of the beginning and part of the growth. I've married...and borne children and looked into the face of death. Is childbirth narrow, Grace? Or marriage? Or death? When you've experieced all those things, Grace, the spirit has traveled although the body has been confined. I think travel is a rare privilege and I'm glad you can have it. But not every one who stays at home is narrow and not every one who travels is broad. I think if you can understand humanity...can sympathize with every creature...can put yourself into the personality of every one...you're not narrow...you're broad."
Of all things in life, motherhood and the Gospel of Jesus Christ are only things that will help you do just that.... understand humanity, sympathize with every creature, etc. Just something to think about.
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