God is Faithful.
The past 894 days have clearly demonstrated to my family and I that God is Faithful.
What started out as an ordinary day in the spring of 2011 became a day that would change the direction of our family in a very big way. God decided it was time to move our family. He orchestrated that move by allowing my husbands job to be dissolved in Delaware.
We had a feeling the Lord was getting ready to change the direction of our family and that a BIG move was coming our way.
God knew what we needed to make Him a priority in our lives.
That BIG move arrived on a cold gray day in January 2012.
A tractor trailer pulled into our small cul de sac
that morning demanding everything and everyone stop in its presence.
That truck invaded many lives that day.
Boxes. Packing.
Life just feels vulnerable as you watch it all packed up.
Wedding pictures, books holding lockets of baby hair and baby teeth are all put into a brown box. What do you mark a box that holds that many memories; Definitely Fragile.
Fragile...
That was not the only thing that was fragile. Three kids saying good bye to their bedrooms, friends and family is enough to drive a Momma right over the edge.
But God was There.
He saw every tear. He knew our pain.
Most importantly He knew how important this move was to our family. He knew we needed to be taken out of our comfort zone to grow.
He knew. He watched and He cheered us on.
We arrived in Southern Indiana a few days after closing out our home in Delaware. The moving truck pulled up in front of our new home and began bringing all those boxes back out.
When the truck left--empty-- We all stood in our new home stunned and a little numb.
A question popped into my mind; "What did we just do? We know no one here, absolutely no one.
What did we do??"
Well, we obeyed what God had laid on our hearts to do. He prompted us and confirmed it through so many things that this is where He wanted us. All 5 of us knew we needed to make this move.
We all had peace.
God was here.
A lot of times when I step out to obey God I silently think everything will come together seamlessly. Not many struggles.
But...
The first 6 months in our new home were brutal.
But God was there
Our kids cried many nights and days those first couple of months.
I remember telling them over and over again;
You can Trust God. He called us here.
I would then go downstairs to my room and say to myself with tears in my eyes, "We can Trust You God, Right?" Then I would say again, "We CAN Trust You."
One of the first things I put up on the wall of our new home was this verse;
This was our new motto.
Now here I am 894 days later. Would I do it all over again? Was it worth it?
Was it the right thing for our family?
I can say with 100% certainty that this was the right thing to do.
Our family has grown in ways that I never dreamed possible.
Our kids are so much stronger in just about every area of their lives.
I have grown more in the past 2 1/2 years than I ever have in my life. God knew I needed to be taken completely out of my comfort zone to get to know Him and His ways.
God was there. God is here.
He showed up and proved Himself very Faithful.
He has given us great friends, surrounded us with many talented and caring people to help educate our children. He has given us a great church family and many more things.
There are times that I miss our old life. It is the family and friends I miss most.
I miss familiarity and being comfortable.
I joke with a lot of people that God burned our box when we moved to Indiana. We were no longer allowed to live inside the box.
One person I really miss is my Mom. She and I are very close. When we lived in Delaware we lived very close to each other. We would see each other several times a week.
Well, as of August 1st my Mom will officially move to southern Indiana,
to the same street our family lives!!
She will actually be 7 doors down from our home.
Honestly, this is still hard for me to comprehend.
It is beyond what I would have hoped for or imagined.
But God is so Good.
Sometimes life is really hard and we cannot see all that God is doing behind the scenes.
God knew exactly what our family needed in order to become who we were truly created to be.
He has incredible plans for our family that I am afraid we would have missed if God had not stepped in and provided exactly what we needed to grow.
