{"id":1648,"date":"2015-06-16T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/its-all-about-journey-and-getting-to\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:03:30","slug":"its-all-about-journey-and-getting-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"It’s ALL About the Journey and Getting to our Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 164 of Photo Inspirations — It’s All About the Journey AND Getting to our Destination
\nWhoever said “It’s not about the destination — it’s about the journey” wasn’t running a 26.2 mile marathon or on a 12-hour road trip, with 6 of us AND stuff crammed into a vehicle.LOL!   Yesterday, my Texas kids and I (all 6 of us) had a 12-hour “journey” (road trip) to Minneapolis for Payton’s  NCFCA Speech & Debate Nationals Tournament.  We played card games, Scrabble, sang, used our technology for entertainment AND worked (in Staci’s case), snacked, and stopped for yet another one of us needing a pit stop. With all that entertainment, still there were moments of sibling disagreements.  “Mom, please make her stop singing!”  “Mom, he won’t move over.”  “Mom, I want to watch that DVD!”  “Mom, she won’t stop putting her feet on me!”  Hilarious!  For them, it WAS about the destination! <\/p>\n

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I have to smile as it brought back so many vivid memories of our own family road trips — the only difference was, we never could use “I’ll take away your technology if you all don’t settle down”!  Aw…..technology — sweet time consumer and a means for harmony and peace.  I often wonder “How did we manage raising our kids without it?”  LOL!   In our case, all my kids’ daddy had to do was pull the car to a screeching halt on the side of the road….and peace and harmony resumed.  For us then, as now, it was about the destination. <\/p>\n

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We made it here to Northwestern University, got all settled in our dorm rooms.  Yes, three of us are in one dorm room and the other three are in the other.  These dorm rooms are unlike ones of the past.  These have kitchenettes AND bathrooms in them, furnished with nice beds, desks and chests and lots of closet space.   Payton and Alexia are getting to experience what it will be like to “live on campus” one day, and we are enjoying ‘remembering’ campus life.  The journey for us was sweet….but the destination of graduating and moving on in life was what it was about for us — THE DESTINATION!<\/p>\n

We made it here — our destination.    The closer we got, the more excited Payton became.  He practiced and worked hard to be here, and he prayed and believed for it.  I loved reading HIS Instagram post yesterday: <\/p>\n

“On my way with the family driving to Minnesota for the NCFCA Speech and Debate Nationals Tournament! (A long 12 hours!!!) I can’t thank God enough for all the guidance He has given me! I know I couldn’t have made it this far without Him! He sure is a great God! Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you declare the Lord; plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you a hope and future”! <\/p>\n

THAT’S it!!!  Yes, God does have awesome plans for our todays.  He wants us to have a blessed journey.   Getting to Minneapolis — our destination — is sweet.  But getting to HEAVEN to be with our Lord and our loved ones will be AWESOME!  So we’ll continue to enjoy the journey ……with ALWAYS keeping in mind that the ultimate and FINAL DESTINATION will be with Him and being HOME SWEET HOME!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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