I had no idea, but it has apparently been over 4 months since I last wrote a blog article. I have missed having time to sit down and put my thoughts on "paper". And, honestly, I have a million things I should be doing right now other than writing, yet here I am.
Things have changed so much since my last blog. My sweet husband and I decided at the end of December that it was time for us to move on to a new ministry. We loved those we were working with before and loved the congregation we worked and worshiped with, but we felt a need to get back into full-time ministry as opposed to part-time. For anyone who is a part of a preacher's family will know, job searches can take months and months and sometimes up to a year. So our tentative plan was to move in the summer. God's plan was a much faster move.
It was a bit of a whirlwind move.
We tried out at a congregation on January 12th, were offered the position that night, and started working with them the first week in February. We would be moving 2 1/2 hours away and had less than 3 weeks to find a rent house, pack up our house, and get moved. Somehow we did it. Well, it was with a lot of help from family and friends that we did it.
Many times in my life I have wondered if the choices I had made, or the choices my husband and I had made together, really were in accordance with God's will. Sometimes it truly is difficult to know and so we do the best that we can. And then there are those times where it is very obvious that we most likely made the wrong decision and suffer accordingly. Yeah, don't want to repeat those mistakes. But this, this feels so right. We are loving it here and loving getting to know those around us. While we do miss our family and friends that we left behind, we are very happy with the move and the house and the new work.
So that is the big change we made in the past 4 months. Lots and lots of other things have happened, and I wish I would have made time to write. I'll have to catch you up on our little sweeties and give details of what a failure I am at homeschooling the eldest, but that will wait for another day.
Hope the past 4 months have been full of great things for you as well.
~Lisa
