“Our life does not always turn out the way we planned, but sometimes that because what we planned wasn’t suppose to be our life…..”
It has been quite a while since I last blogged. I have been dealing with this depression again and have been isolating myself… It is not something I am proud of, but I do it and don’t know why. The thing I need most at this time is fellowship…
Well, my dad posted the quote above on his facebook page and I thought it would be the perfect way to start this blog, it sums up this past year for me perfectly.
We moved here to Rincon, Ga just 15 months ago. I have made a few good friends here, but that’s the extent of our joy. We have not found a church that we felt welcomed into. We tried, but this is a very small town and we never felt like we fit in. We were disillusioned with the kids school. Tom has been sick since the day we moved in, he is allergic to something here and it has been a problem since the first morning here. All that to say that we have been trying to leave since we got here.
About two or three months ago, out of the blue, Tom got a phone call from a lady he interviewed with Three years ago. We turned her down then because the economy wasn’t good for a move, then we forgot about it. But Tom talked with her and we prayed and decided that this was a good opportunity to get back to Fl, near our families, and we began to get ready to make another move. We’ve put our house on the market, begun packing and made several trips to FL to look at houses! Then a company came for sale in the county we used to live in!
We began thinking that this could be the thing that could get us back to our “home”, back with our family and, most importantly, our church Seven Rivers Presbyterian, the place where we fell in love with each other, and gained a new love for Jesus! So we made an offer and went to Fl for two weeks to do our due diligence. Everything went GREAT! We told our church friends that we were coming HOME! We even went house hunting. But God showed Tom a small notation in the books that made him ask some different questions, and we found out that we were being scammed. Unh… Our hearts are still broken. I still don’t understand how someone could do that to another person.
In the mean time Tom talked with a company in Inverness that had offered him a position still doing court reporting, but it would still allow us to be home. While he was in the office talking with the owner, he saw a transcript laying on the desk, and it was from someone who used to work with us, someone we knew long ago. So Tom called her to ask some questions. She told us not to work for him. She said she barely works and if we had a chance to go elsewhere we should go. Another blow. We had even bought a house and were having the inspection done when she told him that. We had to back out of the house and make other plans…
We were going to register our kids in Seven Rivers School, and I had a job interview set up to work at the church. We were coming HOME! But God placed a transcript on top of a pile so Tom would see a name and make a phone call that would keep us from making a huge mistake! We were crushed, again, by someones lies, but so GRATEFUL for God’s providence, and “saving” us yet again.
So we are back to God’s original plan for us and we are moving to Brandon Florida. He has been offered a great job there, we have made an offer on a home and are waiting for the bank to yea or nay us, so we can move forward. We want so badly to be back home in Citrus County, with our family, friends and church family, but God has different plans. He is directing us southward, about an hour and a half away. We get the chance to be close enough to our family to go every weekend, if we want to. And to go to 7 Rivers too!
We will be close enough that we GET to go to our church! We will Get to see our family! We will Get to be with our friends! As I sit here today I can say I get it. I get that God has a plan, He has Always Had a Plan!
I am so thankful for the friends God has provided here in Ga. I would not have ever left these four walls if it weren’t for my best friend here, Lisa. She saw me almost in tears at the McDonalds playground and invited me to coffee. It was the one word I needed to keep me afloat this past year. She and Nora, Angie and Amy, and a few others,will be part of my heart forever.
“Our life does not always turn out the way we planned, but sometimes that because what we planned wasn’t suppose to be our life…..”
Our plan was to be back home, in Citrus County. But God has a plan, that we must trust, for us to live only 1 1/2 hours south, and we will still GET to be home, as often as we want!
We are coming home! Not the way we thought we would, but the way God had planned all along. We will be in our church, not every time the doors are open, but often enough to be part of the life that is there. We will be home with our family and friends for holidays, birthdays, dance recitals and life… We will live in the place God chose for us, in a home where we will grow and flourish. A home we can, hopefully, raise our boys in. and have family dinners and holidays in. And we will be home.
Would you pray that our house here sells soon? Would you pray that we hear from the bank soon, on the house we offered on in Brandon? Would you pray that we remember God’s provision through all of this and His protection? I love you all, you are my friends, and I cherish your friendship. Thanks so much for reading this and for praying for our family. I love you.
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