New Beginnings...

2010 has been full of blessingsand full of moments of anxiety too! That's part of the reason that I haven't been blogging as much.

We put our house on the market and if you know about doing this work, you know it is hard work. I remember having to apologize to my family and to God several times for my bad behaviour. If you are a perfectionist it is this very kind of thing that can make you crazy. At some point you have to realize that you are on someone else's time table (a buyer) and ultimately God's timetable for you. Our house sold in 8 days, but it came at a time when my husband, Ty, and I couldn't have been busier with his job(s), our family and the committments we have to our community.

After we got our house repaired, packed up, sold and signed a short apartment lease, we realized that the home we were hoping to build had run into some delays. Although we loved the house and really enjoyed the building team that we were going to work with, we realized that this wasn't going to work for us. We spent several weeks feeling pretty unsettled.

So what did we do when we felt really unsettled? I probably behaved badly again and was a complete stress case, but I did manage to pray and ask God for direction. Wouldn't you know it, within two weeks we had money down on another house, being built by great builders and it is a better layout for us than the first house. (The first house is still great though!) Like I said, God's timetable. His better for us, is often better than we can often hope for or imagine for ourselves.

Now our family is stepping out and doing something that we have been hoping to do and praying about for several years. We love Jesus and we hope to start a church (from scratch!) in our community. Exciting days and new beginnings...