Our Next Adventure

I love the feature that Jeff set up on this blog, to the right–“This week last year”.  It’s such a fun way for me to quickly recount the lessons, trials, and adventures that God was taking us through at this time last year.  Sometimes it’s encouraging, as I realize, “Oooh, that’s what You were doing, Lord!”  And sometimes it’s convicting: “Oh man, I’m still wrestling with that.” But it’s always fun to see progress.  Countless times in Scripture God tells His people to remember, to recount stories, to tell of the ways God tested them and blessed them.

It was interesting this week, as we’ve been going through three weeks of crazy house stuff–this house we live in selling, and then trying, trying trying to buy a house.  Offers rejected, an offer accepted and then the inspection showing that the house was unfit for habitation, a bank saying they’d take a certain offer and then rejecting it once we put it in writing.  Argh! It’s been frustrating and stressful to say the least. Then, when we settled on renting for a couple months just until the summer so we could catch out breath and reevaluate, we couldn’t even find a place near the church that would rent for less than a year!  I kept feeling like, “Ummm…God?  Not sure if you noticed but we need a place to live…not trying to be picky here, but please!!”  So in the midst of all this I glance over at “This week last year” and click on “A little thought for today.”  And the short post simply reads, “I don’t pray, “Lord, give me a home.” I pray, “Lord, be my home.”  Wow. I then remembered back to last year at this time, praying and praying that God would open up a job for Jeff so that we could move out of my parents’ house and into a home of our own.  It was amazing realizing it was almost two years ago that we decided to sell all our stuff, move out of our house, and move in with my parents.  I had no idea what adventure we signed up for!  And now I pray again, just like last year, “Lord be my home.” 

And…I am thrilled to share that God has provided a place for us to live for the next two months.  A wonderful family from our church has offered to let us stay in their home for two months while we pray and figure out what God has for us next.  Yay!  I’m not going to share all the details on here as I want to respect their privacy…but the whole story is SOOOOOO God, so if you’d like to hear feel free to email me individually and I’d love to share!  We’ll be walking distance to the church, and just blocks from the house that we are still hoping to buy, so we’ll get to know the neighborhood where we serve and hope to live.

So it appears we’re headed into yet another adventure, but I suppose that’s what following God is, right?! He has us on such a grand adventure as He molds our lives and uses us for His glory. I’m so excited to see what He has up His sleeve…