A New Season!

Days and Days and Days have gone by since I last posted.  So many minutes, hours, and days.  Sometimes the minutes fly by and then those minutes turn into hours and the hours turn into days and the days turn into years.  You get the picture...the seasons change and life goes on!  


We are in a different season of life right now.  Not sure what season it is but I do know it's different than the last season.  I have found through all the seasons of life - God takes you down different paths for different reasons.  And I am so thankful that He is in control of it all.  Our constant prayer has been that we are staying minute-by-minute in God's perfect will.  That's a tough prayer because we all deep-down truly want to choose our own path - do our own thing.  But we have learned that our way is tainted - you know, sometimes rocky sometimes good sometimes happy sometimes stormy sometimes content.   We are so content right now.  Mainly because God has showed Himself to us and we know we are walking in His path.  


Don't you just hate posts like this????!!!!!  You know, where they just don't make any sense at all.  The writer writes in circles and you have no clue what they are talking about.  blahblahblah!


So I'll stop that and get straight to my point....We sold our beloved home and signed all the papers last Friday.  Moving was .....well, to keep from using inappropriate language....it was not fun!  Physically and emotionally draining.  But we KNEW that's what we were supposed to do.  And the direction that we "thought" God was taking us - changed in a matter of minutes.  For lots of different reasons.  Red flags were popping up everywhere and we decided if we were going to be in God's will (that we long for) we MUST change directions.  So we did.  We changed boats in the middle of the stream  - or is it change paddles in the middle of the river??  Either way, we immediately changed directions.  And we had a "only from God" peace about it.  You know that kind of peace where you still don't like it but you know it's the right thing to do. 


Robin and I are such visionaries.  We see a piece of raw land and can both immediately have a gorgeous home built on it (in our mind) and we'll even both know how it needs to be landscaped.  Or we'll see a torn-up trashed-out house and can literally have walls torn down and completely rebuilt in a matter of minutes (in our mind).  I can walk in anyone's house and before a conversation has finished - I have it completely redecorated (in my mind).  Unfortunately I can even look at a woman and have her totally made over (new clothes, new haircut, new makeup) in a matter of minutes!  Yes, it's a curse I say!  Our brains just never shut down with visions.  Now mind you, it's always an "improved" vision.  So that's a good thing.  But it never stops - for either of us.  Never. Ever. Never.


So we think God decided we needed a "brain" break.  We are now living in an apartment where you can't paint a wall, plant a bush, change out a light fixture, and you even have to pay $$$ if you put nail holes in the wall.  Seriously, it's like $25 per nail hole if they have to fill a hole when you move out!!   Now it's a very nice apartment with a gorgeous pool, gym, indoor basketball court, media room, game room, all the perks.  But you still can't paint it.  They even have this cool trash pick-up service.  All you do is put your little kitchen-type trash can (that they give you) right outside your door and they empty it every night but Saturday.  Now that's a cool thing!  But you still can't paint it.  We signed a year lease so guess our brain will just have to wait for a year to paint a room or envision what's next.  But we are thoroughly convinced that God has a plan for us.  A plan not to harm us but plans for us to prosper and we KNOW He is our hope and future.  Cause He told us so in Jeremiah.


But all visions are not lost....even during this season of life.  I'll be decorating our new precious church that we love so much with something fun and festive for Christmas!  And I'll be doing something a little creative at church even after Christmas.  I'm so thankful God is faithful to us.  Aren't you??!!!

Our New Home 

For I am about to do something new.

      See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?

   I will make a pathway through the wilderness.

      I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

Isaiah 43:19