I eluded to a little surprise in our lives in yesterday’s post. God sure likes to keep us on our toes. I’m reminded of the saying, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” I’m not sure if God is laughing or testing me…….I’m listening, God! I hear you loud and clear! I’m trusting you to guide the path for our family…..
The News
Let me clear something up first…….We are NOT pregnant!!!!!! As much as Creg thinks that we need to have a playmate for Dax, there is NOT a baby on the way!
So what is our news????
We are moving! It’s real….The sign is in the yard and our house is for sale (4+ bedrooms, 3 baths, granite counter tops, full finished basement, hardwood floors, fenced in yard, extended patio, landscaped, built in storage shelves in basement, walking distance to schools/ball fields/bike path…..) Sorry, that was my shameless plug, but in all seriousness, spread the word! We have it for sale by owner this week while we clean/go through stuff/get it “ready” to sell. It will go with a realtor quickly due to our time constraint! Save on realtor fees….. (oops, plugging it again)
Are You Shocked?
So are you shocked???? Me too!!!! It’s really still sinking in. I don’t want to move (just being honest with you). This area is all I know. I’ve lived in this area for my entire life. I know it backwards and forwards. I know the people. I know the schools. This is “home”. Why, God? I’ve found myself asking that a lot lately. We have prayed and prayed about this decision (for months). We have prayed for God to show us His path and to help us carry out His plan. I don’t know “why”. I do know that He’s screaming loud and clear that this is the direction we need to go. I’ve even tried to talk us out of it. And every time, He comes back with the same answer. He’s getting a good laugh, that’s for sure!
Have you ever prayed for an answer, getting one, and then not really liking the answer even though it’s kinda the answer you prayed for???? That’s the case here……I’ll explain…..
The Hunt
We’ve been praying for a long time for a better job for Creg. Being self employed and having to purchase our own health insurance was too expensive, so 2 years ago, Creg went to work at a factory job. Working horrid hours, in an awful (and smelly) environment with no gratification. It was a job that paid our bills and provided insurance (and we are thankful for that), but…..that’s it. There was nothing rewarding, the hours caused him to miss a lot of things with the kiddos, he was grumpy due to lack of sleep and a messed up schedule. We needed something better. So we prayed. We prayed for God to open the doors of opportunity.
When we started looking for jobs, we were looking for anything. Anything around this area that paid as well, but was a better environment. We were finding dead ends. So I finally asked Creg, in a perfect world, if he could do any job he wanted, what would it be……. His response “I’d love to get back into the church running sound/technical stuff”. Knowing that those options here in town were full, I suggested that we look in the surrounding communities….Maybe having to commute 45min-1hour for work. We could handle that if it was a job he was happy with.
We started searching hard for opportunities. There wasn’t much of anything in the area. I felt like we should broaden our search field. We started to see a lot more postings for what he was looking for. These jobs were in Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis….. Oh gosh, I was not ready for this. We are a blended family. I couldn’t take my kids away from their dad. It was one thing for Creg to drive up to an hour for work, but moving my kids away from their dad was a little hard for me to feel comfortable with. I felt like he should go ahead and start applying and we would cross that bridge if and when we got there. He sent in a few applications and nothing panned out. I was starting to feel like it was not the time for a job change. God was telling us that our home was right where we are. I started to feel a little relief that we weren’t going to have to move our family…………… and then I came across a posting……
Come back tomorrow and I’ll tell you more =)
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