New Beginnings

This is hilarious and fitting that I don't have a picture of our new home.  That is so typical.  Ok, guess I need to back up a bit...

After 10 months with our house on the market last year and not an offer, we pulled our house off the market and started the school year as 9th, 7th, 4th, and K5 grades.  Moving to just a little west of our area or a little north of our area was just not meant to be for us.  We invested in our schools and the school year thinking that was where we were going to be for the next couple years.  Then comes fall...

What a crazy couple of months. Long story short after a series of 3 interviews and about 8 weeks my husband was offered a job as Police Chief in a small town about 2 hours from where we were currently living.  After much prayer and talking and praying and thinking and praying we decided that he should take the position.  Once the decision was made, the wheels started to turn.  They wanted him to start within 2 weeks.  So he turned in his notice at the place he had worked for 20 years and started his new position the first of December.  

After 2 months of living in separate places and trying to make that work, we decided to go ahead and move and change the kids school mid-year.  This was a really hard decision, but we just felt the benefits of being together as a family outweighed any difficulty of moving mid year.  So here we are. We have been in our new place for 4 weeks.  It still really seems like a new place, but we are getting a little more settled everyday.  The Lord has confirmed over and over to us that this is where we need to be and  where He wants us to do ministry.  

Wow!  That was way oversimplified, it has definitely not been that easy.  We have pulled up roots that are 40 years deep. Sometimes it still just feels like we are visiting and we are going to go back home and things get back to normal again.  But we are slowly finding our new normal.  God is giving me peace and showing me that when all the comforts and familiarly are stripped away, that sometimes we can see His face a little more clearly and that may be exactly what I need in this season of life.  More details to come....and a picture of our new house