So I realize I haven't actually wrote a legit blog post for quite some time now. Crazy how time gets away from you huh?
Well it is the new year! 2011. It is very exciting and scary to know that God has big plans for Jon and I this year, but yet we have no idea what any of it entails. We now have about 6 months left in our internship and then we are out of here. Where you might ask? Well, we don't really know. We have an option in the works, but we won't really know anything for sure about it until March. It is kind of scary really. I am trying really hard to not let it overwhelm me, the planner, that there is no plan in place. But I will be excited to see where God takes us and what the new adventure entails.
We spent Christmas in Florida with the Randall's and Berg's. It was a blast!! loved the time with the family and kissing miss Gracie's cute little cheeks. It is always hard to leave family, but we both felt ready to head home. It was a wonderful holiday season. Got spoiled by the family with presents and car repairs that we are extremely grateful for. I would have been fine with no gifts. So I am very grateful for that blessing.
As for New Years Eve, well Jon and I are old... we only made it till 10, and then I was ready to go to bed and snuggle into my cozy bed. God has been teaching us a lot about our finances and just being more diligent to stick to a budget and to be smart with our money. So that is our New Year resolution. To continue to honor God through our spending and giving.
Stay tunned to the blog to see updates as to how God continues to work and amaze us and to see Where God calls us to for our next Adventure. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! May you make great memories in 2011 and spend lots of time with those that you love most!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Monday, December 13, 2010
Holiday
Eat, Drink and be Merry;
Raise a glass to berries and twigs.
'Twas the night to remember between friends.
Santa's Helper and the Dinner belle
Realized without warm welcomes,
the brightest bulb is out in 2.
Make way for the award-winning candy-dish comeback;
smile pretty into the woods,
Set your sites on berried treasure.
1 top secret wish list;
Christmas results to 85% Cookie breaks,
No sweeter is a surprise package.
Add your warmth around the gifts.
Share the best, Spread the joy, Celebrate the Holidays.
Present the gift of a smile.
Party central has gone full circle.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
$$$$$$$
Why do we absorb what the world tells us we need to do? I feel like the TV is always telling you to buy buy buy because they are always advertising cars, clothes, food, and anything else you could buy. It makes it extremely hard when you are trying to save money. It also sucks for when you do great at not spending money, because that means you have just sat at home all day doing nothing, because it is very hard to go out in our day and not spend any money while you are out and about.
Why does money have to be so important? I see so many friends who are in the same boat as me and Jon, but it isn't an encouragement like I wish it would be. My friends facebook status just a couple minutes ago was, "Will we ALWAYS have to worry about money? Will it ever end!?" That is how I feel.
Then I remember marriage counseling, and the stat that $$$ is the #1 cause for divorce now. And that is scary. So when do we stop worrying and how do we stop spending on things that we don't need and food that we don't need to eat because we have food at home. Well, it starts by trusting God.
GOD. It seems too simple doesn't it? It is too, but God is truly the answer. I think that if you aren't a Christian and you are married that you are going to have an even bigger struggle with this. The reason, Because God isn't at the center of your marriage. The only way you can make it through these tough times of money struggles is to rely on God. Have Him be the center of your marriage. That also goes to help with so many other areas of life as well.
God has blessed us beyond belief, not just financially lately, but with our wonderful families, with jobs, with running cars and not having car payments. I so easily look past all of that and complain that we don't have enough money, we don't have this we don't have that. I am selfish. I am tired of being selfish. I am going to change.
Jon and I made a goal this weekend to not spend any money on eating out or entertainment, and to also carry that into the week and not spend money on coffee runs, pop runs, lunch out with the guys, all those little expenses we accumulate through out the week. We have looked at our money and our bank statements and have realized that we have a lot of useless spending that is happening, when we really should be saving that money, and paying the loans that we keep saying we don't have money to pay.
December is going to be a different month for the Randall household. We have looked at our money, what is coming in and what has to go out for bills and realized that we really do have an excess of money. That we have plenty of money actually to be paying our loans... all of them. But we are selfish and think of our wants first and our bellies, and then that money disappears and has actually gotten us into a lot of trouble.
My prayer for us is that God would continue to convict us of our selfishness and that we would be way wiser in our spending. That we would only spend money on what we HAVE to, like bills and groceries, and that the rest would be used to Glorify God. We can do this, and I believe that it will be hard, but God is at the center of our relationship and if we keep drawing towards God and relying on Him and working hard as well, God will continue to bless us and teach us from the error's of our ways. We will emerge triumphant! :)
Why does money have to be so important? I see so many friends who are in the same boat as me and Jon, but it isn't an encouragement like I wish it would be. My friends facebook status just a couple minutes ago was, "Will we ALWAYS have to worry about money? Will it ever end!?" That is how I feel.
Then I remember marriage counseling, and the stat that $$$ is the #1 cause for divorce now. And that is scary. So when do we stop worrying and how do we stop spending on things that we don't need and food that we don't need to eat because we have food at home. Well, it starts by trusting God.
GOD. It seems too simple doesn't it? It is too, but God is truly the answer. I think that if you aren't a Christian and you are married that you are going to have an even bigger struggle with this. The reason, Because God isn't at the center of your marriage. The only way you can make it through these tough times of money struggles is to rely on God. Have Him be the center of your marriage. That also goes to help with so many other areas of life as well.
God has blessed us beyond belief, not just financially lately, but with our wonderful families, with jobs, with running cars and not having car payments. I so easily look past all of that and complain that we don't have enough money, we don't have this we don't have that. I am selfish. I am tired of being selfish. I am going to change.
Jon and I made a goal this weekend to not spend any money on eating out or entertainment, and to also carry that into the week and not spend money on coffee runs, pop runs, lunch out with the guys, all those little expenses we accumulate through out the week. We have looked at our money and our bank statements and have realized that we have a lot of useless spending that is happening, when we really should be saving that money, and paying the loans that we keep saying we don't have money to pay.
December is going to be a different month for the Randall household. We have looked at our money, what is coming in and what has to go out for bills and realized that we really do have an excess of money. That we have plenty of money actually to be paying our loans... all of them. But we are selfish and think of our wants first and our bellies, and then that money disappears and has actually gotten us into a lot of trouble.
My prayer for us is that God would continue to convict us of our selfishness and that we would be way wiser in our spending. That we would only spend money on what we HAVE to, like bills and groceries, and that the rest would be used to Glorify God. We can do this, and I believe that it will be hard, but God is at the center of our relationship and if we keep drawing towards God and relying on Him and working hard as well, God will continue to bless us and teach us from the error's of our ways. We will emerge triumphant! :)
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Crazy Much!?
It's almost to crazy to even talk about. How is all this happening? I shouldn't be complaining because it is all good, but so very crazy!
I was going through our loan papers last night trying to figure out a lump sum of what is due each month for them. Stressful work, but something that needed to be done so we can start working on paying some of them. I was checking out two of my huge loans to see what the monthly payment would be for those, and that's when it got super CRAZY! God totally took care of them. I don't know how he didn't and I am not going to even try to figure it out, but when I logged on to the site, I saw all these zero's. I was thinking, that can't be right, can it? Which it can't... But it was! I clicked on the details of the accounts and both of them said PAID IN FULL!! I felt and still feel very confused. I don't understand or know how it happened, seeing is they are so weird about talking and dealing with you in person. All I can say is God heard my desperate cry. Those two loans equalled roughly 30 grand! Major stress relieved. I am thanking God tremendously right now. And it happened at such an awesome time. A time when I was feeling down and stuck and not sure what we were going to do.
Then today I opened what I assumed to be a letter to Jon telling him again about the money he had in a retirement fund that he had set up when he was working for Old Navy. We knew how much was in there, but Jon had called to see about taking it out so we could have that money and the person he talked to said we really wouldn't get much of that money back, so we decided to leave it in there. It wasn't hurting anything. I opened it, realized it was a check, and for pretty much the whole amount that was in there! God is so good. He has blessed us twice in a day, and blessed us with so much more too. I don't know how all this is happening other than it is GOD. I have been praying and crying out because we have been struggling, and I have felt that God has been silent, but I am waking up and realizing that He is not silent. He needed me to get to a point where I had nothing left and had to fully lean on Him for support and for Him to take care of me.
I get in this rut of having/trying to do everything on my own, even when I say I am trusting God to handle it. I usually just say it and don't fully mean it. But the past two weeks I have been at my breaking point. A point of "give up". A point where I didn't care where we lived or what we were doing, just as long as we were living some where that paid us, so we could take care of our debt. That is the place God was getting me to, because I have been trying so hard to control where we are going to go after this internship. I wanted to be by family, no matter what. I needed to be closer to them, and not that I don't still want that, But I have realized that I need to fully trust God and allow Him to move Me where He is calling Us.
Crazy surprises, but awesome ones. They show me how much my God loves me and cares for me. And that He does hear me when I cry out in desperation, even when I think He doesn't. GOD YOU ARE AWESOME! I love you! Thank You!
I was going through our loan papers last night trying to figure out a lump sum of what is due each month for them. Stressful work, but something that needed to be done so we can start working on paying some of them. I was checking out two of my huge loans to see what the monthly payment would be for those, and that's when it got super CRAZY! God totally took care of them. I don't know how he didn't and I am not going to even try to figure it out, but when I logged on to the site, I saw all these zero's. I was thinking, that can't be right, can it? Which it can't... But it was! I clicked on the details of the accounts and both of them said PAID IN FULL!! I felt and still feel very confused. I don't understand or know how it happened, seeing is they are so weird about talking and dealing with you in person. All I can say is God heard my desperate cry. Those two loans equalled roughly 30 grand! Major stress relieved. I am thanking God tremendously right now. And it happened at such an awesome time. A time when I was feeling down and stuck and not sure what we were going to do.
Then today I opened what I assumed to be a letter to Jon telling him again about the money he had in a retirement fund that he had set up when he was working for Old Navy. We knew how much was in there, but Jon had called to see about taking it out so we could have that money and the person he talked to said we really wouldn't get much of that money back, so we decided to leave it in there. It wasn't hurting anything. I opened it, realized it was a check, and for pretty much the whole amount that was in there! God is so good. He has blessed us twice in a day, and blessed us with so much more too. I don't know how all this is happening other than it is GOD. I have been praying and crying out because we have been struggling, and I have felt that God has been silent, but I am waking up and realizing that He is not silent. He needed me to get to a point where I had nothing left and had to fully lean on Him for support and for Him to take care of me.
I get in this rut of having/trying to do everything on my own, even when I say I am trusting God to handle it. I usually just say it and don't fully mean it. But the past two weeks I have been at my breaking point. A point of "give up". A point where I didn't care where we lived or what we were doing, just as long as we were living some where that paid us, so we could take care of our debt. That is the place God was getting me to, because I have been trying so hard to control where we are going to go after this internship. I wanted to be by family, no matter what. I needed to be closer to them, and not that I don't still want that, But I have realized that I need to fully trust God and allow Him to move Me where He is calling Us.
Crazy surprises, but awesome ones. They show me how much my God loves me and cares for me. And that He does hear me when I cry out in desperation, even when I think He doesn't. GOD YOU ARE AWESOME! I love you! Thank You!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
A Happy Hill
Some days I get in this mood where I need everything organized... It usually doesn't take to long because most of my stuff is already very organized, but there are those places that get neglected, like the front coat closet, the storage closet, and even the cupboards for my food or containers. I have always been a semi neat person, but My father has come out in me tremendously since college. Not that my mom isn't clean, she is, but my clean is like my dads. We clean and we organize and everything has to have a place. If it doesn't have a place then it usually gets thrown away.
The one thing I have learned from my dad, though, is to always look in a box before you through it away, or papers. Yes, my dad has thrown away my paper that was due the next day because I left it on the counter for Me to remember the next day, and he saw it as junk. He also through away the box of our homemade christmas ornaments that we had been accumulating for years, because it was light so he thought it was trash. Thus, look in boxes and at things before just pitching them.
So can you guess what I did today? Right when I woke up pretty much. I attacked the front closet and the storage closet! Man did it feel good. I went through like 6 totes, threw away a ton from all of those and condensed things to where I had two open totes! So I put the sleeping bags in a tote so they weren't free fallin all over the storage closet. Then I attacked the front closet. put all the stuff that didn't need to be in there in the other free tote and organized the mitten and hats and scarves in a little basket I found and got all ready for winter. Such a great feeling!
I am one of those weird people that by just being able to do that, I was instantly in a better mood. My husband even noticed. He said to me at lunch today that he could tell I organized things, I was in a good mood! He told me that each time I organize something, I am always in a good mood afterward. It surprised me, but when I thought about it, it made a lot of sense. I put some organization into my life, when I can't always put it there.
I realized, too, that I get very cranky when I feel like life is out of control. (I have a control issue, if I haven't said that yet. I am working on it though.) So when I CAN control something, like the organization of my house, I feel a lot better.
So today was a happy hill in my life. It was a day where I didn't feel like I was spinning out of control or lost, but a day that I claimed to be my day; a day that I organized and enjoyed. I day that I really desperately needed right now.
The one thing I have learned from my dad, though, is to always look in a box before you through it away, or papers. Yes, my dad has thrown away my paper that was due the next day because I left it on the counter for Me to remember the next day, and he saw it as junk. He also through away the box of our homemade christmas ornaments that we had been accumulating for years, because it was light so he thought it was trash. Thus, look in boxes and at things before just pitching them.
So can you guess what I did today? Right when I woke up pretty much. I attacked the front closet and the storage closet! Man did it feel good. I went through like 6 totes, threw away a ton from all of those and condensed things to where I had two open totes! So I put the sleeping bags in a tote so they weren't free fallin all over the storage closet. Then I attacked the front closet. put all the stuff that didn't need to be in there in the other free tote and organized the mitten and hats and scarves in a little basket I found and got all ready for winter. Such a great feeling!
I am one of those weird people that by just being able to do that, I was instantly in a better mood. My husband even noticed. He said to me at lunch today that he could tell I organized things, I was in a good mood! He told me that each time I organize something, I am always in a good mood afterward. It surprised me, but when I thought about it, it made a lot of sense. I put some organization into my life, when I can't always put it there.
I realized, too, that I get very cranky when I feel like life is out of control. (I have a control issue, if I haven't said that yet. I am working on it though.) So when I CAN control something, like the organization of my house, I feel a lot better.
So today was a happy hill in my life. It was a day where I didn't feel like I was spinning out of control or lost, but a day that I claimed to be my day; a day that I organized and enjoyed. I day that I really desperately needed right now.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Jesus: The Man of My Dreams
I had coaching tonight and Sarah said in her Beth Moore study, Beth said that it was hard for her to think about Jesus, the man of her dreams, beaten and nailed to a cross, and then put in a tomb, and not able to do anything about it. Sarah then mentioned how she had never looked at Jesus that way; as the man of her dreams. I realized I hadn't either.
Jesus, The Man of My Dreams. He should be the only one I say that about, yet I only apply that phrase; Man of My Dreams; to my husband. Honestly, my husband can't even be the man of my dreams, because when you think about it, in your dreams, that man is the picture of perfection. He looks and acts exactly the way you want him to. He does everything right away when you ask, he does anything for you without complaing; waits on you hand and foot. That isn't my husband, I wish it was, but my husband is human, he is a sinner, so that isn't him. There are days he is some of those, but there are more days that he isn't. But Jesus is all of those.
Jesus would be all those things that I listed if he was a being that I could touch right now. But he is still those even though I can't see him. I just never think of him that way or trust him in that way. How messed up is that? My savior, the one who bled and died on a cross for my sins, is the man of my dreams who would wait on me hand and foot! But I don't think of him that way.
How different would my life be if I thought of him that way? How differently would I approach my quiet time? I would probably have more quiet time! Wouldn't you? When you are dating someone or married to someone, you want to spend as much time as possible with them and get to know them better and just be in their presence, yet I do not approach God that way. I more approach him as a chore to mark off my list... Disgusting I know!
JESUS, THE MAN OF MY DREAMS... I need to get up every morning and remind myself of that. That if he is truly the man of my dreams, why am I not longing to know everything about him and to just be in his presence? I should be devoting so much more of myself to him.
Jesus, the Man of My Dreams... It's so romantic. It's so true. It's how I need to live each and every day.
Jesus, The Man of My Dreams. He should be the only one I say that about, yet I only apply that phrase; Man of My Dreams; to my husband. Honestly, my husband can't even be the man of my dreams, because when you think about it, in your dreams, that man is the picture of perfection. He looks and acts exactly the way you want him to. He does everything right away when you ask, he does anything for you without complaing; waits on you hand and foot. That isn't my husband, I wish it was, but my husband is human, he is a sinner, so that isn't him. There are days he is some of those, but there are more days that he isn't. But Jesus is all of those.
Jesus would be all those things that I listed if he was a being that I could touch right now. But he is still those even though I can't see him. I just never think of him that way or trust him in that way. How messed up is that? My savior, the one who bled and died on a cross for my sins, is the man of my dreams who would wait on me hand and foot! But I don't think of him that way.
How different would my life be if I thought of him that way? How differently would I approach my quiet time? I would probably have more quiet time! Wouldn't you? When you are dating someone or married to someone, you want to spend as much time as possible with them and get to know them better and just be in their presence, yet I do not approach God that way. I more approach him as a chore to mark off my list... Disgusting I know!
JESUS, THE MAN OF MY DREAMS... I need to get up every morning and remind myself of that. That if he is truly the man of my dreams, why am I not longing to know everything about him and to just be in his presence? I should be devoting so much more of myself to him.
Jesus, the Man of My Dreams... It's so romantic. It's so true. It's how I need to live each and every day.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Discouraged? Disappointed? or Just in the Dumps?
So I am not sure which one of those words in my title I am actually feeling at the moment... Maybe all of them to be quite frank.
Life has been really rough to me right now. I feel that God hasn't given me any answers to anything I have been praying about for the past year. I pray and pray and pray that He would give us direction and clarity as to where He would be leading us and taking us and just what we are supposed to do in the future, but He is silent. He isn't answering, and it makes me angry. Some people say it's foolish to be mad at God and to be Angry at Him; that it isn't right. Well, for me, it's how I work things out with God. It's how I can fully communicate to God my heart. It's not an anger that says "I hate God and I don't trust him any more." It's more of an anger that says "God I am angry! I don't understand! Speak to me. I am trying to listen and do what you want for my life, but You are giving no answers after praying and praying and praying. I need you in this time. Give us some clarity Please!"
Florida has no money for us. There is possibly a housing stipend, but there is not a paycheck or benefits, two things of which we need. Colorado, and living with my parents is our other option at the moment, but the only expense knocked out there is Rent. And we don't have jobs out there, we would have to find them, and they are scarce.
I feel that I/we are just stuck in a hole that got filled with cement and we can't get out. We can't find a chisel to break free. And once we were free, we still would be stuck in the hole with no way out. I need a way out!!!
So I am in this place of anger and confusion. I almost feel bitter at the present state of mind. I have been praying for answers for about a year, and yet I only have more questions. I am at my wits end. I feel like I can't do it anymore. God I need answers!! I don't know what else to ask for or to do or to say. I'm tired of the silence and I am ready for you to make clear where we are supposed to go or what we are supposed to do!
Please!
Life has been really rough to me right now. I feel that God hasn't given me any answers to anything I have been praying about for the past year. I pray and pray and pray that He would give us direction and clarity as to where He would be leading us and taking us and just what we are supposed to do in the future, but He is silent. He isn't answering, and it makes me angry. Some people say it's foolish to be mad at God and to be Angry at Him; that it isn't right. Well, for me, it's how I work things out with God. It's how I can fully communicate to God my heart. It's not an anger that says "I hate God and I don't trust him any more." It's more of an anger that says "God I am angry! I don't understand! Speak to me. I am trying to listen and do what you want for my life, but You are giving no answers after praying and praying and praying. I need you in this time. Give us some clarity Please!"
Florida has no money for us. There is possibly a housing stipend, but there is not a paycheck or benefits, two things of which we need. Colorado, and living with my parents is our other option at the moment, but the only expense knocked out there is Rent. And we don't have jobs out there, we would have to find them, and they are scarce.
I feel that I/we are just stuck in a hole that got filled with cement and we can't get out. We can't find a chisel to break free. And once we were free, we still would be stuck in the hole with no way out. I need a way out!!!
So I am in this place of anger and confusion. I almost feel bitter at the present state of mind. I have been praying for answers for about a year, and yet I only have more questions. I am at my wits end. I feel like I can't do it anymore. God I need answers!! I don't know what else to ask for or to do or to say. I'm tired of the silence and I am ready for you to make clear where we are supposed to go or what we are supposed to do!
Please!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Redeeming Love
So I just finished a book called "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers. An amazing book! I would say that it is probably my new favorite. She came up with the idea of the book from the Book of the Bible Hosea.
Hosea is about a prophet that God tells to marry a prostitute and how he always has to go back and get her and bring her home because she always leaves him to go back to her old ways. God uses Hosea's life as an example the the Israelite people and how He is always bringing them back to Him even though they continually go back to their old ways of life. (which is also us today)
Such a powerful story. Through reading this book by Francine Rivers it has been brought to a new light. I finished it and just felt in awe... For the first time I felt the awe struck wonder in Christ. I wondered why God always comes back for us. Are we really worth that love? As a human in this life I say no, we aren't worth it. God should just forget about us. Stop giving us second Chances! That is when you are thankful I am not God, and where I am extremely thankful I am not God.
I realized how undeserving I am of God's love. I live my life thinking I am almost perfect. That I follow the rules and I do as I am told. But in reality, I am so screwed up and messed up and do things everyday that I am not proud of. I leave God to go back to my old ways, but he is always pursuing me and coming back and bringing me back to him. I don't deserve it. But I am truly thankful.
God is a God of redeeming love. He loves us, even when we really don't deserve it, but in God's eye's we are so deserving. I am so thankful that He is my redeemer and that I don't have to rely on anyone in this world to be my redeemer. I only have to rely on God.
Hosea is about a prophet that God tells to marry a prostitute and how he always has to go back and get her and bring her home because she always leaves him to go back to her old ways. God uses Hosea's life as an example the the Israelite people and how He is always bringing them back to Him even though they continually go back to their old ways of life. (which is also us today)
Such a powerful story. Through reading this book by Francine Rivers it has been brought to a new light. I finished it and just felt in awe... For the first time I felt the awe struck wonder in Christ. I wondered why God always comes back for us. Are we really worth that love? As a human in this life I say no, we aren't worth it. God should just forget about us. Stop giving us second Chances! That is when you are thankful I am not God, and where I am extremely thankful I am not God.
I realized how undeserving I am of God's love. I live my life thinking I am almost perfect. That I follow the rules and I do as I am told. But in reality, I am so screwed up and messed up and do things everyday that I am not proud of. I leave God to go back to my old ways, but he is always pursuing me and coming back and bringing me back to him. I don't deserve it. But I am truly thankful.
God is a God of redeeming love. He loves us, even when we really don't deserve it, but in God's eye's we are so deserving. I am so thankful that He is my redeemer and that I don't have to rely on anyone in this world to be my redeemer. I only have to rely on God.
Life as I (Lacey Dawn) Know It
So blogger just became even cooler. It has this new thing where you can follow blogs easier by adding them to a dashboard thing and then as they are updated you know easier than going and checking those blogs all the time. Pretty sweet.
So I was adding my friends blogs to my follow list and one of my friends had this quote in the most recent post:
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. ~Diana Cortes
I liked it a lot, but sadly it hasn't been very true in my friendships. For a couple it has, like with the person who posted it,and a few more, but with most of them, my friendships with them have died out. Makes me sad. I am a person who relies on friends and good friends at that, but I am also a person who moves around quite a bit. So through that, this quote has come true, or more, been proven wrong time and time again.
The one thing that always makes me sick about making a move is that your "friends" always tell you that they are going to come and visit, but I have had that happen maybe twice in my life. If I do ever see them again, it is because I make the visit to them. I feel like that is wrong, but it is something that I have come to realize is a part of life.
I do feel however, that I am in a stage in life that I am making friends that will always be friends. I have some awesome friends here in O-Town and I feel and believe that I will always have them as friends. I have learned to not believe when friends say they will come and visit me, but I feel that these friends, maybe not right away or all the time, will come and visit me for vacations :)
So... LIFE AS I KNOW IT... that is a scary statement sometimes. Life right now is a waiting game. A game that usually I don't like to play. But right now I am surprisingly at piece with it. We are still waiting to make the final decision about FL, but Jon and I both feel that God is calling us there and that he will somehow work it out to get us there.
A couple of the reasons I personally feel this:
1)I have prayed that God would provide someone to replace me at my job because I felt bad just being hired and then possibly having to move right when they will need me most. I had know one in mind, then within like a week I had two people I could recommend for my Job!
2)I started praying before we went down to Jax to check it out that if God is moving us there, that He would provide for me a job, because with the FL economy it could take a long time for me to find one. We go down there, I share that I love kids and I was going for El Ed and the worship guy and his wife both work in schools and both their mom's work in schools and I could have basically had a job as a para that weekend in the school district down there! crazy huh?
3)We felt very comfortable with the staff down there. The church planter and his wife remind me a lot of my family, which was awesome and would help me, I think, with my homesickness for my family if we moved there.
4)My mom's job just got even sweeter. I believe in a couple weeks or after the New Year she will be able to work while she travels so she won't have to use as many vacation days, but they could come see us more without it affecting her because she would be able to work from FL!
There is so much more but that is some of it. God is just showing us so many opportunities down there and making us feel as though we should be there now, but we are waiting for the right time. It will be exciting whenever it happens though.
In other news:
We get to be with my family for Thanksgiving!!! I am super excited. I miss them so much and this may be one of the last times I see them for a while. I hate living far away. But I am thankful for facebook and allowing me to watch my nephew's grow without having the privilege of being there to witness it.
We also get to go to FL for Christmas, which should be a hoot. I love the Randall Clan and the Berg Clan. Such a great group of people that I am privileged to call my family now. It will be fun to be able to spend my first Christmas with them this year!
Well that's all for now.. :)
So I was adding my friends blogs to my follow list and one of my friends had this quote in the most recent post:
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. ~Diana Cortes
I liked it a lot, but sadly it hasn't been very true in my friendships. For a couple it has, like with the person who posted it,and a few more, but with most of them, my friendships with them have died out. Makes me sad. I am a person who relies on friends and good friends at that, but I am also a person who moves around quite a bit. So through that, this quote has come true, or more, been proven wrong time and time again.
The one thing that always makes me sick about making a move is that your "friends" always tell you that they are going to come and visit, but I have had that happen maybe twice in my life. If I do ever see them again, it is because I make the visit to them. I feel like that is wrong, but it is something that I have come to realize is a part of life.
I do feel however, that I am in a stage in life that I am making friends that will always be friends. I have some awesome friends here in O-Town and I feel and believe that I will always have them as friends. I have learned to not believe when friends say they will come and visit me, but I feel that these friends, maybe not right away or all the time, will come and visit me for vacations :)
So... LIFE AS I KNOW IT... that is a scary statement sometimes. Life right now is a waiting game. A game that usually I don't like to play. But right now I am surprisingly at piece with it. We are still waiting to make the final decision about FL, but Jon and I both feel that God is calling us there and that he will somehow work it out to get us there.
A couple of the reasons I personally feel this:
1)I have prayed that God would provide someone to replace me at my job because I felt bad just being hired and then possibly having to move right when they will need me most. I had know one in mind, then within like a week I had two people I could recommend for my Job!
2)I started praying before we went down to Jax to check it out that if God is moving us there, that He would provide for me a job, because with the FL economy it could take a long time for me to find one. We go down there, I share that I love kids and I was going for El Ed and the worship guy and his wife both work in schools and both their mom's work in schools and I could have basically had a job as a para that weekend in the school district down there! crazy huh?
3)We felt very comfortable with the staff down there. The church planter and his wife remind me a lot of my family, which was awesome and would help me, I think, with my homesickness for my family if we moved there.
4)My mom's job just got even sweeter. I believe in a couple weeks or after the New Year she will be able to work while she travels so she won't have to use as many vacation days, but they could come see us more without it affecting her because she would be able to work from FL!
There is so much more but that is some of it. God is just showing us so many opportunities down there and making us feel as though we should be there now, but we are waiting for the right time. It will be exciting whenever it happens though.
In other news:
We get to be with my family for Thanksgiving!!! I am super excited. I miss them so much and this may be one of the last times I see them for a while. I hate living far away. But I am thankful for facebook and allowing me to watch my nephew's grow without having the privilege of being there to witness it.
We also get to go to FL for Christmas, which should be a hoot. I love the Randall Clan and the Berg Clan. Such a great group of people that I am privileged to call my family now. It will be fun to be able to spend my first Christmas with them this year!
Well that's all for now.. :)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
5:12pm... 3 years ago today
3 years ago today, my husband asked me out... who would have known then that it was the start of a beautiful relationship?
I am so thankful for my husband. He is my best friend and I am so glad that he saw something special in me and wanted me to be his. My life would be very different without him in it, that is for sure. I am so blessed to be his wife.
So, we are back from Florida. It was a great trip and very exciting. Still praying and waiting to hear back about it all, mostly the financial piece. if it weren't for that we would be there. it was an awesome time. The church plant and the vision for it is so exciting and I really want to be apart of it and the work that God is going to be doing in Jacksonville. It is so exciting.
The people are great too! I want to be apart of that team and to work with all of them. I feel like it would just be such an awesome experience... hard, but amazing! There was just this instant connection i felt with the people that are already at the church plant. I feel like it could be a really great thing.
Jon and I both feel that God is going to work it out some how for us to get there. We don't know how, or when, but we feel that we will be there. Time will only tell.
now off to make dinner and get ready for small group!
I am so thankful for my husband. He is my best friend and I am so glad that he saw something special in me and wanted me to be his. My life would be very different without him in it, that is for sure. I am so blessed to be his wife.
So, we are back from Florida. It was a great trip and very exciting. Still praying and waiting to hear back about it all, mostly the financial piece. if it weren't for that we would be there. it was an awesome time. The church plant and the vision for it is so exciting and I really want to be apart of it and the work that God is going to be doing in Jacksonville. It is so exciting.
The people are great too! I want to be apart of that team and to work with all of them. I feel like it would just be such an awesome experience... hard, but amazing! There was just this instant connection i felt with the people that are already at the church plant. I feel like it could be a really great thing.
Jon and I both feel that God is going to work it out some how for us to get there. We don't know how, or when, but we feel that we will be there. Time will only tell.
now off to make dinner and get ready for small group!
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