The Changes of Life

We are on the cusp of a huge change...one that I have fought against for ten years; a move across the country...so many miles, miles apart from our family and now we contemplate and wrestle with the possibility of it now, two children later and more stuff than I care to pack!  This is a test in so many ways and so it has been since we sold our house, moved into an apartment and bought a lot to build the house we designed with an architect only to have our plans come to a screeching halt!

No church, no house, and a job that has been moving us away from this love of Montana...what is Montana worth to us?  Oh the trouble we've seen, nobody knows...

So we began to ponder the question...Lord, what are you doing?  Where do YOU want us to go and what is important to us?  Is it simply this stunning geography? Or should we consider our boys living around family or our aging parents?  We can't have it all...

Himself got a job offer today, approximately one hour away from his parents.  I am quite amazed really at how excited I am for a change, for an adventure, and sunshine (Who wouldn't sign up for that after a dreary Flathead winter?).  Now it's about all the logistics of moving from here to there; 3000 miles or so, no small feat. And right now I am more than a little exhausted thinking about it, but like everything it's one foot in front of the other and a whole lotta leaning on Jesus along the way!  All the stuffs of living here since '92 and all the friends made since then, but who knows what friends will be a part of our lives there...kind of a new start where maybe we won't be pigeon holed by others and maybe we'll give ourselves the benefit of the doubt and step out in new ways ourselves.  God knows what is on the other side, literally, and it's just my job to trust and walk in graciousness throughout the journey, truly a work of the Lord in my life from start to finish. 

And so I'll walk...and eventually soar by the grace of God...