Next Chapter

On Friday morning, sitting in the school's yard praying; after dropping Jeff off at work. I am looking at the students arrive and parents leave for the day and begin to reflect on the days we were also dropping off our kids to school and leaving for the day, or all of us arriving together and beginning the school day together because we were also teachers at that specific school. Those days have changed, we are now in another city than our kids. We are what has been deemed empty nesters and like I have told Audra, our daughter on a number of occasions recently we are all learning to grow up and be adults.
This next chapter, is one of excitement, trepidation, longing, fulfillment, anxious thoughts, proud moments, too many feelings to begin to articulate. We, officially began this leg of bobbing weaving 33 days ago and we trekked 920 miles from Virginia to Florida. Now, as I sat in that school yard, so much has changed we are no longer dropping our daughter to school. She is now entering a school, to work along with a seasoned teacher, as part of her degree program. She and her father both are in the process of instilling truth into young minds.

One can never fully imagine the day, that you leave them to their own devices and pray that all that you have tried to instill takes effect. She is noticing things about the house now. For instance, last week, she called and said; "Mommy, I can't believe it, someone has put another satellite dish in our yard. Can you believe the audacity of people."  I said, "really, are you sure?" She said, "yes, there are two in the yard, DirecTV and Wildblue." I begin laughing inside and then I said, " Audra, those are ours and they have been there for three years." And then it hits me, how good children have it, and the realization that they really don't take notice of things around them. She said, "It was never any concern of mine, aren't you glad I am noticing now?" I said, "Yes, my darling......"

How many times, have we not taken notice of what the Father has done or is doing for us. We take it for granted that it will be done. Let's not ever forget,  "God sent his Son into the world. God did not send his Son to judge the world guilty. God sent his Son so that the world could be saved through his Son."
As we move to this next chapter, we are ready and prepared to partner with God to save the world........what does your net chapter hold?

Bobbing and Weaving!

As I talked with my father today and recall previous conversations to others my mind thinks about bobbing and weaving. Many people have been looking in on our lives; that is my husband's and I life and believed that we have been bobbing and weaving. What does this mean exactly? Well, it means wandering aimlessly, changing courses without a specific destination in mind; it could also look like someone going and going and just unsure.

The beautiful thing, is that once someone sits down and really looks or takes the time to connect they become fully aware of our destination. That what looks like bobbing weaving to them is really a following after what God has ordained in our lives. It is a time of preparation for the tasks that are to come. It's a recovery time after completing an assignment. I characterized our lives after trusting Christ as a couple as a roller coaster ride. Why? Because we gave god the reigns, we said to Him, "Your will be done" and we did not consider this place our home.

Our journey has been one of learning to trust God, implicitly. When we choose to follow his leading and go to University, leaving our jobs to study the scriptures; we had to believe that he would take care of our family. That He would provide, care for us. And He Did! His word tells us that He can and will do "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us," this blew me away because I always thought that my thoughts were always abundant. My sister, Yvette, says that I have the robin Leach's dreams, "champagne wishes and caviar dreams."

I smile, because she is right but also wrong! My thoughts and dreams are abundant because I know who my Father who is!! I know what He has done and is doing in my life. That, He is Creator God! I am convinced that "I AM' has and is ordaining our steps........We are in Miami now and looking forward to the work He has for us here!!