Learning to Move On

We are moving.  Not far.  Just a few miles east to Parker.  I couldn’t be more excited, but at times, it feels like it will be a lifetime before we get the keys to our new home—30 days to be exact. I feel like a thousand tasks are coming at me from all directions demanding my immediate attention.  And, I’m realizing there’s only one of me.  Well of course I knew that already, but I often quietly commend myself for the multi-tasker that I am.

This truth came to light (about the multi-tasker thing) when I was juggling two important phone calls, responding to three texts and reading a disclosure statement about the new property, all while teaching Izzy a history lesson about Austrailia.

I might have told our Farmers insurance agent, Kim, that we are relocating to Sydney in a few weeks so that we can enjoy a warm tropical Christmas on the beach.  You see Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere meaning the seasons are opposite of what we have here in the Northern Hemisphere.  It’s highly possible that’s what I said.  I’m sure she’ll figure it out and then wonder whom this goof ball is that she’s writing a quote for.

It’s stressful right now.  I’m wondering what we got ourselves into.  I’m wondering if we heard God right.  Should we be making a move like this?  Is this the right time?

A hundred questions.  One answer.  Not an audible answer.  But an answer deep in my soul that says YES.  This is where I want you.

This process of selling and buying a home looks nothing like I pictured in my head five weeks ago when we listed our home.  I couldn’t have come up with this plan on my own.  God’s hands are all over it.

What I’m learning is that God cares about the little things in our lives.  He cares about the details.  His timing is perfect.  And He only reveals His plan when we fully submit to Him and His leading.

This isn’t the first time, and it won’t be the last time, I have to re-learn this lesson.   And it probably won’t be the last time that I have to re-learn this lesson in the next 30 days.

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? Matthew 6:26