Wow! Last night was surreal. An incredible feeling to wake up this morning and bask in gratefulness of last night’s rough-cut screening of MOVING ON. Nearly 700 people showed up in Grand Junction to the Avalon Theatre to celebrate the near-completion of a project that has been in the works for over a year and a half!

Grateful for everyone who took time out of his or her busy life to attend. There were people who drove hours and some who even flew across the country to be here last night. Pure joy to see so many faces – new faces, old faces, familiar faces and unfamiliar faces…joy!

· Grateful for the generous hearts that sacrificially invested in the film through product purchases or donations. Because of you this film will see completion!

· Grateful for the open hands and arms…the embraces of friends, family, and strangers who gave love, accolades, and support!

· Grateful for vulnerability, honesty, and words of encouragement – this is not just our story!

· Grateful for the amazing interns, staff, and Board of LGH that made last night possible!

This morning, as we drank coffee and listened to birds chirping on our back porch, Dave read me an excerpt from Donald Miller’s A Million Miles In a Thousand Years:

And it was like Carols said, because you can take a bus to Machu Picchu; you can take a train and then a bus, and you can hike a mile to the Sun Gate. But the people who took the bus didn’t experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

Our journey to this point has been hard - lots of sacrifices; an almost failed marriage; months without paychecks; the sweat and tears of family, friends, volunteers, staff, and filmmakers; stress and anxiety; and the plague of fear and doubt that looms at the door begging to enter. Last night was our ending, the redemption and beauty of all the pain it took to get here. The story has made us different characters than we would have been if we arrived at the ending without panting from the hike or displaying the scars from the fight. It was an honor and a privilege to stand there last night in awe at what has become of our lives. We’re humbled beyond measure and we really have a feeling that this isn’t the ending but the beginning!

All Our Love and Thankfulness,

Morgan