Journey Part 2

If you haven't read Part 1 of the story, you can read it here.

Since learning the news of Adam's transfer, I have been in a season of waiting. While I would like to think that I'm a patient woman, I'm really not. Having to wait on others or being late really bothers me. However, during this season of waiting, God has really opened my eyes to this and honestly, I didn't see it until recently.

Having kids teaches you a whole new level of patience. However, when it comes to major decisions that affect your life, I'm a planner and I want to know the timeline and an answer now. It was not that simple in our situation.

God was preparing me.

I figured since I had been praying about it for almost a year, that my season of waiting was over. I felt entitled to know an answer. That entitlement was just part of my problem. In the past couple of months, we have dealt with some trials that I would have rather not dealt with.

God was preparing me.

At the beginning of September, we learned that the owner of our house was planning on moving back into his house Dec. 1st, when our lease was up. Still not knowing when or where on the move, we decided we would relay the information to his work. Fortunately, they were willing to accommodate the timeline and would get back with us with more details.

During that month of waiting, we faced another trial in our lives. I couldn't take much more. My mind was telling me to have faith, but my heart was having faith is what God does and not in who God is. I was exhausted physically and mentally.

It wasn't until recently that I awakened to that. Thankfully, I keep a journal of my studies and felt like I really needed to flip back on what God has been teaching me this last year. I write down anything that is noteworthy in my biblestudies.

* In times when life is hard, we discover we have based our faith on who God is or on what God does.

* Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.


Those words hit me like a ton of bricks. I needed to hear those words again. It was worth going back and reading them.

Adam & I have had many conversations on what we have learned during this process and what God has shown us. Our relationship is much stronger and so is our walk with the Lord. I'm so thankful to have him to walk through this journey with him.

After 6 months of waiting, we finally received some direction and recently learned Adam's new position this week. We will be in the Fort Worth area. There are still a lot of unknown details, but hopefully in the coming week we will know more.

We are excited about this opportunity and being much closer to our family and friends back home. Adam & I both have family in the Plano/Frisco area, so it will be nice having them close by. I think our parents were pleasantly surprised to learn the location, especially since we thought there could be a good chance we would be in West Texas. This will be a much shorter drive and a central location. If you have any advice on good locations to live in the Fort Worth area, please let me know. Our main criteria will be based on the better school districts.

On a final note, when we told Mason the news that we would be moving back to Texas, he ran in his room and grabbed his tub of cars. When he walked back in the living room, he asked if he could bring his cars with us to Texas. We told him of course, we will be bringing all our things with us to Texas. He yelled "yay" and started jumping up and down with excitement.