Still changes

Latest blessing:  I'm employed!  What an appreciation I feel for having a job.  I've had a lot of emotionally taxing things to consider and work through this summer.  One of those times where I'm grateful for having gone through them, but glad to move past.  

I find myself in a place of not knowing how to respond.  Sometimes in life you want badly to take away someone else's point of pain or insecurity or frustration.  It's a hard thing to want, and a definite hard thing to accomplish.  I don't expect that we are really supposed to take it away in the first place, but, instead, walk beside the person.   

I thank God for bringing us where we are.  I trust that it is for his glory.

Transitions

Well, we now live in a new place.  People say that the most stressful times in a marriage are moving to a new place and finances.  Well, we conquered moving to a new place with few problems.  Chris and I travel well together and we seem to be a good balance when stressful things come up.  So, all in all I'm glad the move went so well.  

In this recent transition of life, I was able to see God's hand in something more powerful than I have in a long time.  It was exhilarating, encouraging, and a good dose of faith steroids to pump me up.  We made of list of God-sized road blocks and he just dissolved one after another.  I sit here resting in the hope that he will dissolve yet another.  The last one on the list.  I need a job.  Teacher Certification hold ups at the state level have caused me to watch several teaching jobs go by without even a glance in my direction.  One would think that I could possibly have control over the process...yet I don't.  I have done my part and am at the mercy of others to do their job....  tough place to be, yet I have peace that something is supposed to work out.  I may be the next Wal-mart greeter.  Except, someone told me I wasn't old enough. Next.  

I'm living in peace.  The peace of God.