You Just Never Know

It's been a long time and truthfully, I've lost that bloggin' feeling. I have been amazed at how God has transformed me, us in the past few months and surprisingly one of the things that I loved to do almost daily just doesn't call me anymore.

Every once in a while, I get the bug. Sometimes I'll be sitting in the car rider line to pick up Christen and I'll type some notes on my phone for a blog but in the past weeks or even months, I just haven't taken the time nor have I had the desire to do it.

But today, I am up early. The kids don't have school because of parent-teacher conferences and so I thought I'd take some time to recap the past few months...

In July, Brian joined the staff at Rock Point Church as the Care and Assimilation Pastor. He left Caterpillar after 4 years. It was a big step of faith for us as we knew the pay would be much different. But we knew that this is where Brian should be and this was a calling that he could not turn down.

Interestingly enough, our house had been on and off the market for about three years. Soon after Brian started at Rock Point, we got an offer that we accepted. God's timing was perfect. He knew how it was all going to work out:)

So at the end of August, we moved into a house that a family in our church was trying to sell. It had been on the market for awhile and they didn't want it sitting empty for the winter so they offered it to us while we built our house. Let me just tell you that this house and the land that it is on is like a retreat! It is so beautiful. The house is great for us too but it is surrounded by trees and acreage and trails and a creek (albeit a little dry right now) and it is just beyond anything we could have ever imagined as far as what our rental would be.

The amazing thing is that friends that are in the ministry told us that as soon as we stepped into this position, we would start to see God's blessings in ways that we would never imagine. I can tell you that that is true. We saw it right away! When you step out in faith and obey God, he will bless you!

I'm out of time right now but rather than saving this for later and maybe not finishing it for awhile, I'll post and hopefully come back and write some more!