Where He moves...we'll move

Our family is about to embark on a new journey. About a month ago, Father impressed upon me that instead of Ken and I praying for a revelation about what God's grand plan is for our lives, to pray and ask Him what the next step or thing is that He wants for us to do. So, that's what we did. It was a risky prayer, and He did answer. What we were shown was a one-word answer: MOVE.

The timing works out interestingly. Our lease is completed by the end of this month, and at the time that we prayed, it was about 2 weeks out from us being required to get in our 30 day vacate notice on time. Ken's time is about to come to a close in the current job he has as it is outdoor work (landscaping/irrigation) and as of the moment we have not seen any job possibilities nor has Ken felt lead in one direction or another to seeking after something. Just a week ago Ken and I met for about an hour with a couple from Texas who were in town speaking to the Kairos discipleship school that is held at our church. This couple started the ministry Streams of Mercy about 8 years ago in obedience to what Father had placed on their hearts. It took acts of great obedience on their part as they walked through their initial journey to get this ministry going. We shared with them the direction that God is pointing us in and how God has pricked our hearts so much lately with ministry to families, orphans, even possibly the nations and they encouraged us so greatly just to continue to keep seeking Father; as Wick said it they "prayed and walked, walked and prayed, prayed and walked some more". Something Jan said to me really stuck out though about our possible moving destination; perhaps it is a transitional time for us.

This word transition for some reason has great significance to me right now, but honestly I'm not even sure why. As of right now, Ken and I haven't been given any clear direction for a moving destination other than an option that had come up a couple of months ago, which was moving in with his sister and brother-in-law in Arkansas. It is so beautiful down there, and to think that these two would open up their home to us while we temporarily regain our footing means more to us that words can possibly express. At the same time this brings some sadness to me; I don't understand why we would need to be taken away from the familiar things that we have here, the people we love, the church that we have grown so much in. The good thing is that we DON'T have a house to sell, I homeschool Hannah so I DON'T have to worry about pulling her out of school. We are young still so we really are at the mercy of wherever Father would want for us to go. It's just going to be hard for me to let go of the familiar.

But maybe that's what is supposed to happen. Maybe His plan in all this is to continue and deepen the maturing process that we've been on these past couple years. To remove those familiarities so that we have to 100% depend on the Holy Spirit and Father to guide us into what He has in store for us. Maybe that's something we won't be able to hear until we get down there.

Sigh...I could sit here all afternoon and analyze all the 'why's' and 'what if's' to death. But really at this stage of the game, I think Father is most interested in one thing: are we going to follow Him, or are we not?? Are we going to have, as Pastor Clint put it at church this weekend, obedient, contrite hearts that are willing to do and go where Father has us to go?

I know all his thoughts towards me are good. I know that He has plans for us, plans for a future and a hope. He WANTS to give us the wisdom that we so desperately ask for. But most importantly, He just wants us to walk with Him, and let Him be our Daddy.