As we prepare for the change of 2015 to 2016, I find myself
reflecting on what has been and what’s to come. This year I pray expectantly
for BIG changes for our family. I think the days of “what will be will be” have
left my mouth and I pray specifically for something BIG. Something that most
would think we are crazy to ask but I know that God is bigger than doubt and
judgement. I have always wanted to live a life that displays the Lord’s grace
and is pleasing to His eye and that comes with the belief that he can take all
things and use them for His glory. For the past 9 and a half years we have been
on a journey of growth and change. Chris has gone back to school and received his
degree. We have lost 3 children and welcomed 2 into the world. I have lost my
best friend and learned to trust in friendship again. We have walked through
cancer, the discovery of autism in one of our children, change of jobs and
life, the start of a business, and the fueling of a dream for our family that
seems impossible to the human mind and eye.
But my heart soars at the thought of giving up the comfort
of the known and predictable for the uncomfortable and unpredictable that GOD
MAY DO SOMETHING BIGGER THAN WE CAN ASK OR IMAGINE! That our family may
experience a change of culture and history. That my boys may grow and deepen in
their understanding and belief in the Greatness and Strength of living in and
for the Lord.
So for 2016 Chris, our boys, and I pray diligently for the Lord to take
our family out of Georgia and back to the Northwest. We wait. We trust in his
timing. And in the meantime we prepare. We do not know how the doors will open
or when but we know why, because there is something there for us to do. We need
to change a legacy. We began praying with our boys as we want them too to watch and see what The Lord does when we pray. So we ask that you would pray with us because just as the
church prayed for Peter and the jail doors opened, we need the gates to open,
but just like Peter we will not force the doors but rather pray persistency and
wait as patiently as possible. God is never late. He is always right on time.
And in the meantime we wait. We continue in the work God has given us to do
here and we wait in anticipation for the time when our next task begins. But
may we be transparent in this time and journey that others may be encouraged and
join us in prayer and trust. 2016 will bring a new chapter I am confident in
it because it is not our comforts that we seek but His direction and His will.
We must live the lives we are teaching our children to desire. We want them to grow and be men of God who seek after Him and His desires first? Then we must be willing to listen and believe and follow if when it seems what we are following after is an impossibility. I pray that if you follow us on this journey that our transparency will somehow be used in your life. That our experience may help others as they too seek after The Lord and His direction.
