Whew!

I have learned something about myself. I am not very good at blogging when my mind and time is consumed with something that I have to do. Take the last 6 months for example. From the time we made our first visit to Florida last August, the wheels were set in motion for a half year process that resulted in leaving our home, making a cross-country move, visiting family, and now preparing our hearts to settle into a new life in a new place. Whew! To say that it was all-consuming- (oh yeah, and homeschooling needed to go on as normal) would not do justice to how fixed my mind was on what was happening. So, there was little time to sit down and do any creative writing here.

But today is a new day.

I woke up today and had nothing that I had to do. That put me in a fog. When is that ever the
case with my crazy, busy life? We are staying with grandparents, and their home is warm and relaxing and restful. It only took me a few minutes to realize that a day to rest was the perfect gift for God to give me today. All the changes we’ve been through lately, (though they are an incredible answer to our prayers of many years,) have made us physically and emotionally tired. It is a very satisfying, joyful exhaustion, probably like the way a farmer feels when the crop is all safely gathered in, but exhaustion nonetheless. So we are resting.

Ahhhhhh! Thank you, Lord!