In the past 3 years, I have scaled down my commitments to value the time that we have as a family while our children are still young. We started homeschooling, I came back to our hometown to work closer to home, we've even started on a journey for Tommy to go to school and learn a new profession. All the while I been seeing God in these decisions. It was terrible when we realized that he couldn't build boats anymore because of the accident, but only God would have known that the economy would have been this bad at this time and that boat building would not be productive nor stable. I didn't chose nursing...God chose it for me more than 25 years ago. There's concrete evidence of this in the "All About Me" book that my mom saved from kindergarten, and today this is one of the more stable jobs in the world. It just amazes me that all the while when I think I'm the one making all these decision....I turn around and find God there with a wink. It was Him along, putting these decisions before us or even sometimes allowing life to give us no choice in the matter.
So, as I rack my brain trying to decide...where or when or if we will move. Wondering if staying in this small yet ever growing town that I (and my parents and grandparents and their parents) have grown up in is the right decision. I take consolation in the fact that my God is ever present and will always help us to make the right decisions...if we allow Him to.
Thank you Lord for always being there even when I forget to invite you in.
1 comment:
Wow, we must be twins separated at birth... by quite a few years though ;)
I am amazed by our similarities. Our lives our so very similar. Our values are so very similar.
One difference, but in the whole scheme of things is small, I do not home school.
Will come back and keep reading soon. Looking forward to it!
Julie
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