Saddest Picture ever taken

A few posts ago I wrote about the best picture ever taken. It was of my soccer girls praying before the biggest moment of the year for them. It was something that I will never ever forget. God really spoke to them and to me during that year, and that picture serves to remind me of just how powerful our God really is.

To go along with that thought I am posting the saddest picture ever taken. This was not taken by me, nor was I even in the same country while this picture was being taken. Due to choices that I made, and places that I am, it made it impossible to be there to be in this picture. I am not upset or mad, just very sad. My next blog will have more pictures from the wedding of my sister. The picture makes me sad because this is my family. These are the people that are closest to me, these are the people that I treasure more than anyone on the face of the planet, and there is one person that is not in this picture...me. You can take this several ways, in 5 years when I am back in the states people will look at that picture and say "where were you?" And then I get to tell them that I was in South Korea being a missionary teacher at that time. It also can look as though I really didn't want to be there, which is so far from the truth. God had me right where he wanted me and to get there for just the weekend would have cost over 2000 dollars not to mention that I would have been able to spend more time in the air then at the wedding and reception and I didn't want that to be an added burden on a day that should be all about my sister. In my next blog I will talk a little bit about the wedding. But for now I'll post this picture and leave it at that.